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Good News Translation GNT
1 It is good to praise the LORD and make music to your name, O Most High,
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How good it is to give thanks to you, O Lord, to sing in your honor, O Most High God,
2 proclaiming your love in the morning and your faithfulness at night,
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to proclaim your constant love every morning and your faithfulness every night,
3 to the music of the ten-stringed lyre and the melody of the harp.
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with the music of stringed instruments and with melody on the harp.
4 For you make me glad by your deeds, LORD; I sing for joy at what your hands have done.
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Your mighty deeds, O Lord, make me glad; because of what you have done, I sing for joy.
5 How great are your works, LORD, how profound your thoughts!
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How great are your actions, Lord! How deep are your thoughts!
6 Senseless people do not know, fools do not understand,
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This is something a fool cannot know; someone who is stupid cannot understand:
7 that though the wicked spring up like grass and all evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.
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the wicked may grow like weeds, those who do wrong may prosper; yet they will be totally destroyed,
8 But you, LORD, are forever exalted.
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because you, Lord, are supreme forever.
9 For surely your enemies, LORD, surely your enemies will perish; all evildoers will be scattered.
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We know that your enemies will die, and all the wicked will be defeated.
10 You have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox; fine oils have been poured on me.
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You have made me as strong as a wild ox; you have blessed me with happiness.
11 My eyes have seen the defeat of my adversaries; my ears have heard the rout of my wicked foes.
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I have seen the defeat of my enemies and heard the cries of the wicked.
12 The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon;
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The righteous will flourish like palm trees; they will grow like the cedars of Lebanon.
13 planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God.
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They are like trees planted in the house of the Lord, that flourish in the Temple of our God,
14 They will still bear fruit in old age, they will stay fresh and green,
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that still bear fruit in old age and are always green and strong.
15 proclaiming, “The LORD is upright; he is my Rock, and there is no wickedness in him.”
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This shows that the Lord is just, that there is no wrong in my protector.
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Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.