How Great Are Your Works!

1A Canticle Psalm. On the day of the Sabbath. It is good to confess to the Lord and to sing psalms to your name, O Most High:

2to announce your mercy in the morning, and your truth throughout the night,

3upon the ten strings, upon the psaltery, with a canticle, upon stringed instruments.

4For you, O Lord, have delighted me with your doings, and I will exult in the works of your hands.

5How great are your works, O Lord! Your thoughts have been made exceedingly deep.

6A foolish man will not know these things, and a senseless one will not understand:

7when sinners will have risen up like grass, and when all those who work iniquity will have appeared, that they shall pass away, age after age.

8But you, O Lord, are the Most High for all eternity.

9For behold your enemies, O Lord, for behold your enemies will perish, and all those who work iniquity will be dispersed.

10And my horn will be exalted like that of the single-horned beast, and my old age will be exalted in fruitful mercy.

11And my eye has looked down upon my enemies, and my ear will hear of the malignant rising up against me.

12The just one will flourish like the palm tree. He will be multiplied like the cedar of Lebanon.

13Those planted in the house of the Lord will flourish in the courts of the house of our God.

14They will still be multiplied in a fruitful old age, and they will endure well,

15so that they may announce that the Lord our God is righteous and that there is no iniquity in him.