Psa 92 | LEB | STEP | A psalm. A song. For the Sabbath day. It is good to give thanks to Yahweh, and to sing praise concerning your name, O Most High;

Psalms 92

Thanksgiving to Yahweh for Victory

A psalm. A song. For the Sabbath day. ^{▼▼The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one}

1 It is good to give thanks to Yahweh,
and to sing praise concerning your name, O Most High;
2 to declare in the morning your loyal love
and your faithfulness in the night,
3 on the ten string, and on the harp,
with a melody on the lyre.
4 For you, O Yahweh, have made me glad by your work;
by the deeds of your hands I sing for joy.
5 How great are your deeds, O Yahweh;
how very deep are your thoughts.
6 The brutish man does not know,
and the fool cannot understand this.
7 When the wicked flourish like grass
and all the workers of evil blossom,
it is so they can be destroyed forever.
8 But you are on high forever, O Yahweh.
9 For behold, your enemies, O Yahweh,
for behold, your enemies will perish.
All the workers of evil will be scattered.
10 But you have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox;
you have anointed me ^{▼▼The Hebrew’s “that I have moistened with fresh oil” seems unlikely. The above translation presupposes the loss of a letter in the Hebrew textual tradition (ballotani for the MT’s balloti)} with fresh oil.
11 And so my eye looks on my enemies. ^{▼▼This word for “enemies” suggests those watching for any advantage}
My ears hear those evildoers who rise up against me.
12 The righteous ^{▼▼Hebrew singular, but used as a collective. The verbs of this verse are also singular} will flourish like the date palm.
They will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
13 Planted in the house ^{▼▼Or “temple”} of Yahweh,
they will flourish in the courts of our God.
14 They will still prosper in old age.
They will be fat and luxuriant, ^{▼▼This is the same word used of the oil in v. 11 and translated “fresh”}
15 to declare that Yahweh is upright.
He is my rock, and there is no injustice ^{▼▼According to the reading tradition (Qere)} in him.

Psalms 92

Thanksgiving to Yahweh for Victory

A psalm. A song. For the Sabbath day. ▼▼The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one

A psalm. A song. For the Sabbath day. ^{▼▼The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one}