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1 It is good to praise the LORDand make music to your name, O Most High,
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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 proclaiming your love in the morning and your faithfulness at night,
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To make clear your mercy in the morning, and your unchanging faith every night;
3 to the music of the ten-stringed lyre and the melody of the harp.
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On a ten-corded instrument, and on an instrument of music with a quiet sound.
4 For you make me glad by your deeds, LORD; I sing for joy at what your hands have done.
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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 works, LORD, how profound your thoughts!
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O Lord, how great are your works! and your thoughts are very deep.
6 Senseless people do not know, fools do not 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 though the wicked spring up like grass and all evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.
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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 But you, LORD, are forever exalted.
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But you, O Lord, are on high for ever.
9 For surely your enemies, LORD, surely 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 You have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox; fine oils have been poured on me.
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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 seen the defeat of my adversaries; my ears have heard the rout of my wicked 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 of Lebanon;
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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 the LORD, they will flourish in the courts 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 They will still bear fruit in old age, they will stay fresh and green,
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They will give fruit even when they are old; they will be fertile and full of growth;
15 proclaiming, “The LORD is upright; he is my Rock, and there is no wickedness in him.”
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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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