1 It is good to give thanks to the  Lord,

to sing praise to your name, Most High,  *

2 to declare your faithful love in the morning

and your faithfulness at night,  *

3 with a ten-stringed harp  *

and the music of a lyre.  *

4 For you have made me rejoice, Lord,

by what you have done;

I will shout for joy

because of the works of your hands.  *

5 How magnificent are your works,  Lord,

how profound your thoughts!  *

6 A stupid person does not know,

a fool does not understand this:  *

7 though the wicked sprout like grass  *

and all evildoers flourish,

they will be eternally destroyed.  *

8 But you, Lord, are exalted forever.  *

9 For indeed, Lord, your enemies —

indeed, your enemies will perish;

all evildoers will be scattered.  *

10 You have lifted up my horn  *

like that of a wild ox;

I have been anointed  * with the finest oil.  *

11 My eyes look at my enemies;

when evildoers rise against me,

my ears hear them.  *

12 The righteous thrive like a palm tree

and grow like a cedar tree in Lebanon.  *

13 Planted in the house of the  Lord,

they thrive in the courts of our God.  *

14 They will still bear fruit in old age,

healthy and green,  *

15 to declare, "The  Lord is just;

he is my rock,

and there is no unrighteousness in him."  *