- 1It is good to praise the LORD and make music to your name, O Most High,
- 2to proclaim your love in the morning and your faithfulness at night,
- 3to the music of the ten-stringed lyre and the melody of the harp.
- 4For you make me glad by your deeds, O LORD ; I sing for joy at the works of your hands.
- 5How great are your works, O LORD , how profound your thoughts!
- 6The senseless man does not know, fools do not understand,
- 7that though the wicked spring up like grass and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.
- 8But you, O LORD , are exalted forever.
- 9For surely your enemies, O LORD , surely your enemies will perish; all evildoers will be scattered.
- 10You have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox; fine oils have been poured upon me.
- 11My eyes have seen the defeat of my adversaries; my ears have heard the rout of my wicked foes.
- 12The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon;
- 13planted in the house of the LORD , they will flourish in the courts of our God.
- 14They will still bear fruit in old age, they will stay fresh and green,
- 15proclaiming, "The LORD is upright; he is my Rock, and there is no wickedness in him."