Hebrew Names Version HNV
The Message Bible MSG
1 <<A Psalm. A song for the day of Shabbat.>> It is a good thing to give thanks to the LORD, To 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 proclaim your lovingkindness in the morning, And your faithfulness every night,
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To announce your love each daybreak, sing your faithful presence all through the night,
3 With the ten-stringed lute, with the harp, And with the melody of the lyre.
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Accompanied by dulcimer and harp, the full-bodied music of strings.
4 For you, LORD, have made me glad through your work. I will triumph in the works of your hands.
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You made me so happy, God. I saw your work and I shouted for joy.
5 How great are your works, LORD! Your thoughts are very deep.
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How magnificent your work, God! How profound your thoughts!
6 A senseless man doesn't know, Neither does a fool understand this:
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Dullards never notice what you do; fools never do get it.
7 Though the wicked spring up as the grass, And all the evil-doers flourish, They will be destroyed forever.
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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 But you, LORD, are on high forevermore.
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You, God, are High and Eternal.
9 For, behold, your enemies, LORD, For, behold, your enemies shall perish. All the evil-doers 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 exalted my horn like that of the wild ox. I am anointed with fresh 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 eye has also seen my enemies, My ears have heard of the evil-doers who rise up against me.
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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 shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Levanon.
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"Good people will prosper like palm trees, Grow tall like Lebanon cedars;
13 They are planted in the LORD's house. They will flourish in our God's courts.
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transplanted to God's courtyard, They'll grow tall in the presence of God,
14 They will still bring forth fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,
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lithe and green, virile still in old age."
15 To show that the LORD is upright. He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
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Such witnesses to upright God! My Mountain, my huge, holy Mountain!
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