A song of praise for the Sabbath.[511]
<1> It is good to praise the Lord.
God Most High, it is good to praise your name.
<2> It is good to sing
about your love in the morning
and about your faithfulness at night.
<3> God, it is good to play music for you
on ten-stringed instruments, harps, and lyres.[512]
<4> Lord, you make us very happy
because of what you did.
I gladly sing about it.
<5> Lord, you did such great things.
Your thoughts are too hard for us to understand.
<6> Stupid people don't know this.
Fools don't understand.
<7> The wicked may sprout like grass,
and those who do evil may blossom like flowers,
but they will be destroyed, never to be seen again.
<8> But, Lord, you will be honored forever.
<9> Lord, all your enemies will be destroyed,
and all who do evil will be scattered.
<10> But you have made me strong, like the horns of an ox.
You have poured your fresh oil over me.
<11> But I see my enemies around me, ready to attack.
I hear them.
<12> Good people are like budding palm trees.
They grow strong like the cedar trees of Lebanon.
<13> They are planted in the Lord's house.[513]
They grow strong there in the courtyards of our God.
<14> Even when they are old,
they will continue producing fruit like young, healthy trees.
<15> They are there to show everyone
that the Lord is good.[514]
He is my Rock,[515]
and he does nothing wrong.[516]
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