1. It is good to praise Yahweh,to sing praise to Your name, Most High,
2. to declare Your faithful love in the morningand Your faithfulness at night,
3. with a ten-stringed harpand the music of a lyre.
4. For You have made me rejoice, Lord,by what You have done;I will shout for joybecause of the works of Your hands.
5. How magnificent are Your works, Lord,how profound Your thoughts!
6. A stupid person does not know,a fool does not understand this:
7. though the wicked sprout like grassand all evildoers flourish,they will be eternally destroyed.
8. But You, Lord, are exalted forever.
9. For indeed, Lord, Your enemies —indeed, Your enemies will perish;all evildoers will be scattered.
10. You have lifted up my horn like that of a wild ox;I have been anointed with oil.
11. My eyes look down on my enemies;my ears hear evildoers when they attack me.
12. The righteous thrive like a palm treeand grow like a cedar tree in Lebanon.
13. Planted in the house of the Lord,they thrive in the courts of our God.
14. They will still bear fruit in old age,healthy and green,
15. to declare: “The Lord is just;He is my rock,and there is no unrighteousness in Him.”