The Message Bible MSG
King James Version KJV
1 What a beautiful thing, God, to give thanks, to sing an anthem to you, the High God!
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It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:
2 To announce your love each daybreak, sing your faithful presence all through the night,
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To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night,
3 Accompanied by dulcimer and harp, the full-bodied music of strings.
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Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.
4 You made me so happy, God. I saw your work and I shouted for joy.
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For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands.
5 How magnificent your work, God! How profound your thoughts!
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O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.
6 Dullards never notice what you do; fools never do get it.
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A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
7 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.
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When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
8 You, God, are High and Eternal.
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But thou, LORD, art most high for evermore.
9 Look at your enemies, God! Look at your enemies - ruined! Scattered to the winds, all those hirelings of evil!
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For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
10 But you've made me strong as a charging bison, you've honored me with a festive parade.
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But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
11 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:
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Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.
12 "Good people will prosper like palm trees, Grow tall like Lebanon cedars;
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The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
13 transplanted to God's courtyard, They'll grow tall in the presence of God,
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Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.
14 lithe and green, virile still in old age."
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They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;
15 Such witnesses to upright God! My Mountain, my huge, holy Mountain!
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To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.
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