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1 A psalm. A song for Shabbat: It is good to give thanks to ADONAI and sing praises to your name, 'Elyon,
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<A Psalm. A Song for the Sabbath.> It is a good thing to give praise to the Lord, and to make melody to your name, O Most High;
2 to tell in the morning about your grace and at night about your faithfulness,
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To make clear your mercy in the morning, and your unchanging faith every night;
3 to the music of a ten-stringed [harp] and a lute, with the melody sounding on a lyre.
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On a ten-corded instrument, and on an instrument of music with a quiet sound.
4 For, ADONAI, what you do makes me happy; I take joy in what your hands have made.
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For you, O Lord, have made me glad through your work; I will have joy in the works of your hands.
5 How great are your deeds, ADONAI! How very deep your thoughts!
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O Lord, how great are your works! and your thoughts are very deep.
6 Stupid people can't know, fools don't understand,
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A man without sense has no knowledge of this; and a foolish man may not take it in.
7 that when the wicked sprout like grass, and all who do evil prosper, it is so that they can be eternally destroyed,
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When the sinners come up like the grass, and all the workers of evil do well for themselves, it is so that their end may be eternal destruction.
8 while you, ADONAI, are exalted forever.
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But you, O Lord, are on high for ever.
9 For your enemies, ADONAI, your enemies will perish; all evildoers will be scattered.
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For see! your haters, O Lord, will be put to death; all the workers of evil will be put to flight;
10 But you have given me the strength of a wild bull; you anoint me with fresh olive oil.
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But my horn is lifted up like the horn of the ox: the best oil is flowing on my head.
11 My eyes have gazed with pleasure on my enemies' ruin, my ears have delighted in the fall of my foes.
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My eyes have seen trouble come on my haters; my ears have news of the fate of the evil-doers who have come up against me.
12 The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar in the L'vanon.
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The good man will be like a tall tree in his strength; his growth will be as the wide-stretching trees of Lebanon.
13 Planted in the house of ADONAI, they will flourish in the courtyards of our God.
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Those who are planted in the house of the Lord will come up tall and strong in his gardens.
14 Even in old age they will be vigorous, still full of sap, still bearing fruit,
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They will give fruit even when they are old; they will be fertile and full of growth;
15 proclaiming that ADONAI is upright, my Rock, in whom there is no wrong.
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For a sign that the Lord is upright; he is my Rock, there is no deceit in him.
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