Each One’s Purpose

¹ It is good to give thanks to the LORD, to sing praises to your name, Most High; ² to proclaim your loyal love in the morning, your faithfulness at nighttime ³ with the ten-stringed harp, with the melody of the lyre ⁴ because you’ve made me happy, LORD, by your acts. I sing with joy because of your handiwork. ⁵ How awesome are your works, LORD! Your thoughts are so deep! ⁶ Ignorant people don’t know fools don’t understand this: ⁷ though the wicked spring up like grass and all evildoers seem to blossom, they do so only to be destroyed forever. ⁸ But you, LORD, are exalted forever! ⁹ Look at your enemies, LORD! Look at how your enemies die, how all evildoers are scattered abroad! ¹⁰ But you’ve made me as strong as a wild ox. I’m soaked in precious ointment. ¹¹ My eyes have seen my enemies’ defeat; my ears have heard the downfall of my evil foes. ¹² The righteous will spring up like a palm tree. They will grow strong like a cedar of Lebanon. ¹³ Those who have been replanted in the LORD’s house will spring up in the courtyards of our God. ¹⁴ They will bear fruit even when old and gray; they will remain lush and fresh ¹⁵ in order to proclaim: “The LORD is righteous. He’s my rock. There’s nothing unrighteous in him.”