UST PSA Chapter 92

Psalm

A psalm that is to be sung on Sabbath days.

92 Yahweh, it is good for people to thank you

and to sing as they praise you, the Most High God.

2 It is good to proclaim every morning that you faithfully love us

and to declare each night that everything that you say is true,

3 singing to the music of instruments that have ten strings

and of lyres

and with musicians playing melodies on a harp.

4 I do this, Yahweh, because what you have done makes me happy;

I sing joyfully because of the things that you do.

5 Yahweh, the things that you do are great!

We cannot understand all that you think.

6 These are things that foolish people do not know about,

things that dolts cannot understand:

7 They do not understand that when the number of wicked people increases as blades of grass increase,

and when it seems that all those who do what is evil prosper,

Yahweh will destroy them forever.

8 But Yahweh, you will rule forever.

9 Just look at your enemies, Yahweh! Your enemies will certainly die.

You will destroy everyone who does wicked things.

10 But you have caused me to be as strong as a wild ox;

you have caused me to be very joyful.

11 I have observed my enemies as they oppose me,

and I have heard those evil men.

12 But righteous people will prosper like flourishing palm trees,

they will grow like the tall cedar trees in Lebanon.

13 They belong to Yahweh as securely as if they were trees with roots deep in his temple grounds.

They are as prosperous and healthy as if they were trees growing in our God's courtyard.

14 They are like trees that continue to bear fruit even when they are old.

They remain strong and full of energy, like trees that are full of sap and have abundant leaves.

15 That shows that Yahweh is just;

he is like a huge rock behind which I am safe,

and he never does anything that is unjust.