Psalms 92

1 A Canticle Psalm. On the day of the Sabbath. It is good to confess to the Lord and to sing psalms to your name, O Most High:

“A psalm for the Sabbath-day.” It is a good thing to give thanks to the LORD, And to sing praises to thy name, O Most High!

2 to announce your mercy in the morning, and your truth throughout the night,

To show forth thy loving-kindness in the morning, And thy faithfulness every night,

3 upon the ten strings, upon the psaltery, with a canticle, upon stringed instruments.

Upon the ten-stringed instrument and the lute, Upon the harp with a solemn sound.

4 For you, O Lord, have delighted me with your doings, and I will exult in the works of your hands.

For thou, LORD, hast made me glad by thy doings; In the works of thy hands I greatly rejoice!

5 How great are your works, O Lord! Your thoughts have been made exceedingly deep.

How great are thy works, O LORD! How deep thy purposes!

6 A foolish man will not know these things, and a senseless one will not understand:

But the unwise man knoweth not this, And the fool understandeth it not.

7 when sinners will have risen up like grass, and when all those who work iniquity will have appeared, that they shall pass away, age after age.

When the wicked spring up like grass, And all who practise iniquity flourish, It is but to be destroyed for ever!

8 But you, O Lord, are the Most High for all eternity.

Thou, O LORD! art for ever exalted!

9 For behold your enemies, O Lord, for behold your enemies will perish, and all those who work iniquity will be dispersed.

For, lo! thine enemies, O LORD! For, lo! thine enemies perish, And dispersed are all who do iniquity!

10 And my horn will be exalted like that of the single-horned beast, and my old age will be exalted in fruitful mercy.

But my horn thou exaltest like the buffalo's; I am anointed with fresh oil.

11 And my eye has looked down upon my enemies, and my ear will hear of the malignant rising up against me.

Mine eye hath gazed with joy upon mine enemies; Mine ears have heard with joy of my wicked adversaries.

12 The just one will flourish like the palm tree. He will be multiplied like the cedar of Lebanon.

The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree; They shall grow up like the cedars of Lebanon;

13 Those planted in the house of the Lord will flourish in the courts of the house of our God.

Planted in the house of the LORD, They shall flourish in the courts of our God.

14 They will still be multiplied in a fruitful old age, and they will endure well,

Even in old age they bring forth fruit; They are green, and full of sap;

15 so that they may announce that the Lord our God is righteous and that there is no iniquity in him.

To show that the LORD, my rock, is upright, That there is no unrighteousness in him.