It Is Good to Give Thanks

¹It is a good thing to give thanks to Jehovah, and to sing praises to thy name, O Most High,

²to show forth thy loving kindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night,

³with an instrument of ten strings, and with the psaltery, with a solemn sound upon the harp.

⁴For thou, Jehovah, have made me glad through thy work. I will triumph in the works of thy hands.

⁵How great are thy works, O Jehovah! Thy thoughts are very deep.

⁶A brutish man knows not, nor does a fool understand this.

⁷When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is that they shall be destroyed forever,

⁸but thou, O Jehovah, are on high for evermore.

⁹For, lo, thine enemies, O Jehovah, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish. All the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.

¹⁰But thou have exalted my horn like the wild ox's. I am anointed with fresh oil,

¹¹and my eye has seen my enemies. My ears have heard of the evildoers who rise up against me.

¹²A righteous man shall flourish like the palm tree. He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

¹³Men who are planted in the house of Jehovah shall flourish in the courts of our God.

¹⁴They shall still bring forth fruit in old age. They shall be full of sap and green

¹⁵to show that Jehovah is upright. He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.