The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
The Message Bible MSG
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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What a beautiful thing, God, to give thanks, to sing an anthem to you, the High God!
2 to tell in the morning about your grace and at night about your faithfulness,
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To announce your love each daybreak, sing your faithful presence all through the night,
3 to the music of a ten-stringed [harp] and a lute, with the melody sounding on a lyre.
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Accompanied by dulcimer and harp, the full-bodied music of strings.
4 For, ADONAI, what you do makes me happy; I take joy in what your hands have made.
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You made me so happy, God. I saw your work and I shouted for joy.
5 How great are your deeds, ADONAI! How very deep your thoughts!
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How magnificent your work, God! How profound your thoughts!
6 Stupid people can't know, fools don't understand,
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Dullards never notice what you do; fools never do get it.
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 wicked popped up like weeds and all the evil men and women took over, You mowed them down, finished them off once and for all.
8 while you, ADONAI, are exalted forever.
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You, God, are High and Eternal.
9 For your enemies, ADONAI, your enemies will perish; all evildoers will be scattered.
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Look at your enemies, God! Look at your enemies - ruined! Scattered to the winds, all those hirelings of evil!
10 But you have given me the strength of a wild bull; you anoint me with fresh olive oil.
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But you've made me strong as a charging bison, you've honored me with a festive parade.
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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The sight of my critics going down is still fresh, the rout of my malicious detractors. My ears are filled with the sounds of promise:
12 The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar in the L'vanon.
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"Good people will prosper like palm trees, Grow tall like Lebanon cedars;
13 Planted in the house of ADONAI, they will flourish in the courtyards of our God.
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transplanted to God's courtyard, They'll grow tall in the presence of God,
14 Even in old age they will be vigorous, still full of sap, still bearing fruit,
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lithe and green, virile still in old age."
15 proclaiming that ADONAI is upright, my Rock, in whom there is no wrong.
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Such witnesses to upright God! My Mountain, my huge, holy Mountain!
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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