1 How good it is to thank the LORD,
to praise your name with tuneful chord,
2 to show your love with morning light
and tell your faithfulness each night.
3 Yes, it is good your praise to sing
and all our sweetest music bring.
4 O LORD, my song with joy expands
before the wonders of your hands.
5 How great the works that you have wrought;
how deep, O LORD, your every thought!
You make me glad; I sing your praise
for all your wondrous works and ways.
6-7 Though as the grass the wicked grow,
those evildoers do not know
the endless ruin they will see.
8 But God will reign eternally.
9 All foes will fall before his might;
the wicked shall be put to flight.
10 O LORD, you have exalted me
with royal strength and dignity.
With your anointing I am blest;
your grace and favor on me rest.
11 My eyes have seen the wicked die;
my ears have heard their hopeless cry.
12 The righteous all will flourish well
and in the house of God will dwell.
13 They will be planted like a tree,
14 will still in old age fruitful be.
15 The LORD our God is upright, just;
he is my Rock; in him I trust.
– Psalter, 1912, alt. Psalter Hymnal
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