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¹ It is wonderful to be grateful
    and to sing your praises,
    Lord Most High!
² It is wonderful each morning
    to tell about your love
    and at night to announce
    how faithful you are.
³ I enjoy praising your name
    to the music of harps,
⁴ because everything you do
makes me happy,
    and I sing joyful songs.

⁵ You do great things, Lord.
    Your thoughts are too deep
⁶     for an ignorant fool
    to know or understand.
⁷ Though the wicked sprout
    and spread like grass,
    they will be pulled up
    by their roots.
⁸ But you will rule
    over all of us forever,
⁹ and your hateful enemies
will be scattered
    and then destroyed.

¹⁰ You have given me
    the strength of a wild ox,
    and you have chosen me
    to be your very own.
¹¹ My eyes have seen,
    and my ears have heard
    the doom and destruction
    of my terrible enemies.

¹² Good people will prosper
    like palm trees,
    and they will grow strong
    like the cedars of Lebanon.
¹³ They will take root
in your house, Lord God,
    and they will do well.
¹⁴ They will be like trees
that stay healthy and fruitful,
    even when they are old.
¹⁵ And they will say about you,
"The Lord always does right!
    God is our mighty rock."^[a]