How Great Are Your Works! 1 UST Yahweh, it is good for people to thank you and to sing as they praise you, the Most High 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 UST It is good to proclaim every morning that you faithfully love us and to declare each night that everything that you say is true, BSB BSB: to proclaim Your loving devotion in the morning and Your faithfulness at night
3 UST { singing}{ to the music} of{ instruments that have} ten{ strings} and of lyres{ and} with{ musicians playing} melodies on a harp. BSB BSB: with the ten-stringed harp and the melody of the lyre.
4 UST I do this, Yahweh, because what you have done makes me happy; I sing joyfully because of the things that you do. BSB BSB: For You, O LORD, have made me glad by Your deeds; I sing for joy at the works of Your hands.
5 UST Yahweh, the things that you do are great! We cannot understand all that you think. BSB BSB: How great are Your works, O LORD, how deep are Your thoughts!
6 UST These are things that foolish people do not know about, things that dolts cannot understand: BSB BSB: A senseless man does not know, and a fool does not understand,
7 UST { They do not understand that} when the number of wicked people increases as blades of grass increase, and{ when it seems that} all those who do what is evil prosper, Yahweh will destroy them forever. BSB BSB: that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.
8 UST But Yahweh, you will rule forever. BSB BSB: But You, O LORD, are exalted forever!
9 UST Just look at your enemies, Yahweh! Your enemies will certainly die. You will destroy everyone who does wicked things. BSB BSB: For surely Your enemies, O LORD, surely Your enemies will perish; all evildoers will be scattered.
10 UST 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 UST I have observed my enemies as they oppose me, and I have heard those evil men. BSB BSB: My eyes see the downfall of my enemies; my ears hear the wailing of my wicked foes.
12 UST But righteous{ people} will prosper like{ flourishing} palm trees, they will grow like the{ tall} cedar trees in Lebanon. BSB BSB: The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
13 UST They belong to Yahweh as securely as if they were trees with roots deep in his temple grounds. They are as prosperous and healthy as if they were trees growing in our God’ s courtyard. BSB BSB: Planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God.
14 UST They are like trees that continue to bear fruit even when they are old. They remain strong and full of energy, like trees that are full of sap and have abundant leaves. BSB BSB: In old age they will still bear fruit; healthy and green they will remain,
15 UST That shows that Yahweh is just; he is like a huge rock behind which I am safe, and he never does anything that is unjust. BSB BSB: to proclaim, “The LORD is upright; He is my Rock, and in Him there is no unrighteousness.”
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