The Message Bible MSG
World English Bible WEB
1 What a beautiful thing, God, to give thanks, to sing an anthem to you, the High God!
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<<A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day.>> It is a good thing to give thanks to Yahweh, To sing praises to your name, Most High;
2 To announce your love each daybreak, sing your faithful presence all through the night,
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To proclaim your lovingkindness in the morning, And your faithfulness every night,
3 Accompanied by dulcimer and harp, the full-bodied music of strings.
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With the ten-stringed lute, with the harp, And with the melody of the lyre.
4 You made me so happy, God. I saw your work and I shouted for joy.
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For you, Yahweh, have made me glad through your work. I will triumph in the works of your hands.
5 How magnificent your work, God! How profound your thoughts!
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How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.
6 Dullards never notice what you do; fools never do get it.
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A senseless man doesn't know, Neither does 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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Though the wicked spring up as the grass, And all the evil-doers flourish, They will be destroyed forever.
8 You, God, are High and Eternal.
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But you, Yahweh, are on high forevermore.
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, behold, your enemies, Yahweh, For, behold, your enemies shall perish. All the evil-doers will 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 you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox. I am 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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My eye has also seen my enemies, My ears have heard of the evil-doers who 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 will 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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They are planted in Yahweh's house. They will flourish in our God's courts.
14 lithe and green, virile still in old age."
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They will still bring forth fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,
15 Such witnesses to upright God! My Mountain, my huge, holy Mountain!
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To show that Yahweh is upright. He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.