PSALM FOR TODAY

 

 An arrangement I made years ago, that still enhances our chapel.

Psalm 92

A psalm. A song. For the Sabbath day.

It is good to praise the LORD

    and make music to your name, 

O Most High,

  to proclaim your love in the morning
       and your faithfulness at night,

  to the music of the ten-stringed lyre
       and the melody of the harp.

  For you make me glad by your deeds, O LORD;
       I sing for joy at the works of your hands.

  How great are your works, O LORD,
       how profound your thoughts!

  The senseless man does not know,
       fools do not understand,

  that though the wicked 
spring up like grass
       and all evildoers flourish,
       they will be forever destroyed.

 But you, O LORD, are exalted forever.

 For surely your enemies, O LORD,
       surely your enemies will perish;
       all evildoers will be scattered.

 You have exalted my horn 
like that of a wild ox;
       fine oils have been poured upon me.

 My eyes have seen the defeat 
of my adversaries;
       my ears have heard the rout 
of my wicked foes.

 The righteous will flourish like a palm tree,
       they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon;

 planted in the house of the LORD,
       they will flourish 
in the courts of our God.

 They will still bear fruit 
in old age,
       they will stay fresh and green,

 proclaiming, 
"The LORD is upright, he is my Rock, 
and there is no wickedness in him."