IT IS GOOD TO GIVE THANKS

The just shall flourish like the palm-tree

And grow like a Lebanon cedar.

It is good to give thanks to the Lord.

To make music to your name, O most High!

It is good to give thanks to the Lord,

to make music to your name, O most high.

To proclaim your love in the morn and

your truth in the watches of the night.

On the ten-stringed lyre and the lute,

with the murmuring sound of the harp.

For you gladden me, Lord, with your deeds;

for the work of your hands, I rejoice.

O Lord, how great are your works,

how deep your thoughts, your designs!

Senseless people cannot know your intent

nor the fools your deeds understand.

But the just will flourish like the palm-tree,

They will grow like a Lebanon cedar.

Like trees planted in the house of the Lord,

they will flourish in the courts of the Lord.

In old age they shall still bear fruit,

still remaining fresh and green, full of sap.

To proclaim that the Lord is just,

He, my rock, in whom no wrong can be found.