Psa 92 | EE | STEP | This psalm is a song to sing on Saturday. It is good to tell the LORD that he is great, and to make music to your name, Most High God.

Psalms 92

A Song for Saturday

This psalm is a song to sing on Saturday. ^{▼▼92:0 The psalm is in 5 parts:
– Verses 1-3 say that it is good to tell the LORD that he is great and to use music to do it.
– Verses 4-6 say that God has done something good. You would have to be silly not to see it.
– Verses 7-9 tell us that even if the enemy is strong, God will destroy them.
– Verses 10-11 tell us that God has made the psalmist very strong. And also that God has destroyed his enemies.
– Verses 12-15 tell us that all righteous people will be strong.}

1 It is good to tell the LORD that he is great,

and to make music to your name, Most High God.

2 It is good to talk about your kind love in the morning.

And to talk every night about how you do what you have promised.

3 It is good to make music with lutes and harps.

And it is good to sing with the lyre. ^{▼▼92:3 Verses 1-3: In this part there are two words for God and three words for things that make music. We call these things ‘musical instruments.’ They are the lute, harp and lyre. The psalm calls God ‘LORD’ and ‘Most High.’ ‘LORD’ means that he is always alive. ‘Most High’ means that he is more important than anyone else is. In verse 2, ‘do what you have promised’ suggests that God has done something good.}

4 Because, LORD, the things that you have done make me so happy.

I want to tell you that you are great

because of the things that your hands have made!

5 LORD, how great are the things that you have done!

Your thoughts are often hard to understand!

6 Only a silly man would not know this

and only a fool would not understand it. ^{▼▼92:6 Verses 4-6: Now the psalmist says that God has done something good. The psalmist is now very happy. Only a silly man would not see what God has done. What God thinks is often hard to understand. Only fools would not agree that grass and weeds grow everywhere.}

7 That:

· if bad people grow as grass

· and all the very bad people grow as weeds

you will destroy them and they will never grow again.

8 But you, LORD, will always be the Most High!

9 Because your enemies, LORD, your enemies will certainly die.

You will chase all the people that do bad things to different places. ^{▼▼92:9 Verses 7-9: Grass and weeds grow everywhere! So do bad people. But God will destroy them and they will never come back again. Really, they destroy themselves, as Hosea 13:9 tells us. It says, ‘You have destroyed yourselves (yourselves means more than one yourself).’}

10 You have made me very strong, as strong as a big wild animal.

You did this when you poured fresh oil over me.

11 Mine eyes have seen you beat mine enemies.

Mine ears have heard you beat the bad people that attack me. ^{▼▼92:11 Verses 10-11: Here Bible students think that the psalmist was a leader of the people. If he wrote the psalm before Babylon beat the Jews, then that leader was the king.
They made people king by pouring special oil over them. We are not sure what the wild animal was. Maybe it was a wild ox. An ox is a kind of cow.}

12 Righteous people will grow as well as a palm-tree.

They will grow as the cedars in Lebanon.

13 They are as trees that someone planted in the house of the LORD.

They grow really well near the temple of our God.

14 When they are old, they will still give fruit!

They will always be fresh and green.

15 They will show everyone that the LORD is good.

He is my rock. There is nothing bad in him. ^{▼▼92:15 Verses 12-15: Now the psalmist talks about righteous people. Righteous is a word that means ‘very, very good.’ Only God is really righteous. But God makes people that love him righteous too. It does not mean that they are good. It means that they love God and want to obey him. They will not be as grass and weeds that do not live long, verse 7. Instead, they are as trees. They are as palm trees that produce fruit called ‘dates’; and as the cedar tree which lives for centuries. ‘The temple of our God’ in verse 13 is the same as ‘the house of the LORD.’ It was a special building where the people went to meet God.}