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v1

It is good to give thanks to Yahweh, and to sing praise concerning your name, O Most High;

v2

to declare in the morning your loyal love and your faithfulness in the night,

v3

on the ten string, and on the harp, with a melody on the lyre.

v4

For you, O Yahweh, have made me glad by your work; by the deeds of your hands I sing for joy.

v5

How great are your deeds, O Yahweh; how very deep are your thoughts.

v6

The brutish man does not know, and the fool cannot understand this.

v7

When the wicked flourish like grass and all the workers of evil blossom, it is so they can be destroyed forever.

v8

But you are on high forever, O Yahweh.

v9

For behold, your enemies, O Yahweh, for behold, your enemies will perish. All the workers of evil will be scattered.

v10

But you have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox; you have anointed me ^[The Hebrew’s “that I have moistened with fresh oil” seems unlikely. The above translation presupposes the loss of a letter in the Hebrew textual tradition (ballotani for the MT’s balloti)] with fresh oil.

v11

And so my eye looks on my enemies. ^[This word for “enemies” suggests those watching for any advantage] My ears hear those evildoers who rise up against me.

v12

The righteous ^[Hebrew singular, but used as a collective. The verbs of this verse are also singular] will flourish like the date palm. They will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

v13

Planted in the house ^[Or “temple”] of Yahweh, they will flourish in the courts of our God.

v14

They will still prosper in old age. They will be fat and luxuriant, ^[This is the same word used of the oil in v. 11 and translated “fresh”]

v15

to declare that Yahweh is upright. He is my rock, and there is no injustice ^[According to the reading tradition (Qere)] in him.