How Great Are Your Works! 1 UDB Yahweh, it is good for people to thank you and to sing praise to you who are greater than any other god. BSB BSB: A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day. It is good to praise the LORD, and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High,
2 UDB It is good to proclaim every morning that you faithfully love us and to sing songs each night that declare that you always do what you have promised to do, BSB BSB: to proclaim Your loving devotion in the morning and Your faithfulness at night
3 UDB accompanied by musicians playing harps that have ten strings and by the sounds made by a lyre. BSB BSB: with the ten-stringed harp and the melody of the lyre.
4 UDB Yahweh, you have caused me to be glad; I sing joyfully because of what you have done. BSB BSB: For You, O LORD, have made me glad by Your deeds; I sing for joy at the works of Your hands.
5 UDB Yahweh, the things that you do are great! But it is difficult to understand all that you think. BSB BSB: How great are Your works, O LORD, how deep are Your thoughts!
6 UDB There are things that you do that foolish people cannot know about, things that stupid people cannot understand. BSB BSB: A senseless man does not know, and a fool does not understand,
7 UDB They do not understand that although the number of wicked people increases as blades of grass do and that those who do what is evil prosper, they will be completely destroyed. BSB BSB: that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.
8 UDB But Yahweh, you will be king forever. BSB BSB: But You, O LORD, are exalted forever!
9 UDB Yahweh, your enemies will certainly die, and those who do wicked things will be defeated. BSB BSB: For surely Your enemies, O LORD, surely Your enemies will perish; all evildoers will be scattered.
10 UDB But you have caused me to be as strong as a wild ox; you have caused me to be very joyful. BSB BSB: But You have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox; with fine oil I have been anointed.
11 UDB I have seen you defeat my enemies, and I have heard those evil men wail while they were being slaughtered. BSB BSB: My eyes see the downfall of my enemies; my ears hear the wailing of my wicked foes.
12 UDB But righteous people will prosper like palm trees that grow well, like the cedar trees that grow in Lebanon. BSB BSB: The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
13 UDB They are like the trees that people plant at the temple of Yahweh in Jerusalem, the trees that are close to the courtyard of the temple of our God. BSB BSB: Planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God.
14 UDB Even when righteous people become old, they do many things that please God. They remain strong and full of energy like trees that remain full of sap. BSB BSB: In old age they will still bear fruit; healthy and green they will remain,
15 UDB That shows that Yahweh is just; he is like a huge rock on which I am safe, and he never does anything that is wicked. BSB BSB: to proclaim, “The LORD is upright; He is my Rock, and in Him there is no unrighteousness.”
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