1It is a good thing to give thanks to the Lord, and to sing praises to your name, O you Most High;

2to proclaim your mercy in the morning, and your truth by night,

3on a lute of ten strings, with a song on the harp.

4For you, O Lord, have made me glad with your work: and in the operations of your hands will I exult.

5How have your works been magnified, O Lord! your thoughts are very deep.

6A foolish man will not know, and a senseless man will not understand this.

7When the sinners spring up as the grass, and all the workers of iniquity ¹⁷⁶have watched; it is that they may be utterly destroyed for ever.

8But you, O Lord, are most high for ever.

9¹⁷⁷For, behold, your enemies shall perish; and all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.

10But my horn shall be exalted as the horn of a unicorn; and my old age with rich ¹⁷⁸mercy.

11And my eye has seen my enemies, and my ear shall hear the wicked that rise up against me.

12The righteous shall flourish as a palm tree: he shall be increased as the cedar in Libanus.

13They that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God.

14Then shall they be increased in a ¹⁷⁹fine old age; and they shall be prosperous; that they may declare

15that the Lord my God is righteous, and there is no iniquity in him.