Commentary on Psalms - Volume 5

1It is good to give thanks to Jehovah, To sing psalms to thy name, O Most High!

2To proclaim in the morning thy goodness, And thy truth in the night.

3Upon the psaltery, and upon the nablum, ³⁶⁰ Upon higgaion with the harp. ³⁶¹

4For thou hast made me glad, O Jehovah! in thy works; In the works of thy hands I will exult.

5How magnificent are thy works, O Jehovah! Exceeding deep are thy thoughts.

6The man that is foolish shall not know them, Neither shall he who is void of wisdom understand them.

7When the wicked flourish as the grass, And all the workers of iniquity spring up, [It is] that they may perish for ever.

8But thou art exalted for evermore, O Jehovah!

9For lo! thine enemies, O Jehovah! For lo! thine enemies shall perish; Scattered shall be all the workers of iniquity:

10But thou shalt exalt my horn like that of the unicorn. I am anointed with fresh oil.

11And mine eye shall see [ruin] on my oppressors: [Of destruction,] on those who rise up against me — On those who trouble me hear shall my ears.

12The righteous as the palm tree shall flourish, As the cedar in Lebanon he shall be multiplied.

13Planted in the house of Jehovah, In the courts of our God, they shall flourish.

14Still shall they bud forth in old age; Fat and green shall they be;

15That they may proclaim that upright is Jehovah, my Rock, And that there is no iniquity in him.