[1] LORD, it is good to praise you. Most High God, it is good to make music to honor you. [2] It is good to sing every morning about your love. It is good to sing every night about how faithful you are. [3] I sing about it to the music of the lyre that has ten strings. I sing about it to the music of the harp. [4] LORD, you make me glad by your deeds. I sing for joy about what you have done. [5] LORD, how great are the things you do! How wise your thoughts are! [6] Here is something that people without sense don’t know. Here is what foolish people don’t understand. [7] Those who are evil spring up like grass. Those who do wrong succeed. But they will be destroyed forever. [8] But LORD, you are honored forever. [9] LORD, your enemies will certainly die. All those who do evil will be scattered. [10] You have made me as strong as a wild ox. You have poured the finest olive oil on me. [11] I’ve seen my evil enemies destroyed. I’ve heard that they have lost the battle. [12] Those who do what is right will grow like a palm tree. They will grow strong like a cedar tree in Lebanon. [13] Their roots will be firm in the house of the LORD. They will grow strong and healthy in the courtyards of our God. [14] When they get old, they will still bear fruit. Like young trees they will stay fresh and strong. [15] They will say to everyone, “The LORD is honest. He is my Rock, and there is no evil in him.”
