Purpose: To provide a (weekly?) reminder that YHWH is faithful and just
Content: It is right to declare: "YHWH rules justly from on high!" We rejoice because we understand that his justice means that the wicked flourish only temporarily but the righteous flourish forever.
Message: YHWH's actions are just and fair from the perspective of forever
Author: Anonymous
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Translation
Click 'Expand' to the right to see our Close-but-Clear translation of Psalm 92.
and [it is right] to sing praise to your name, Most High.
3. [It is right] to declare your loyalty in the morning
and [it is right to declare] your faithfulness at night.
4. [It is right to praise YHWH] with a ten-stringed instrument and with a harp,
with a soft melody on a lyre.
5. For you have made me rejoice, YHWH, by your action;
In the work of your hands I rejoice.
6. How great are your works, YHWH!
Your plans are so deep.
7. Stupid people do not know [this]
and fools do not understand this:
8. when wicked people flourish like a green plant
and any evildoers prosper,
[this is] for them to be destroyed forever,
9. but you are on high forever, YHWH.
10. For look, your enemies, YHWH—
for look, your enemies will perish;
all evildoers will be scattered,
11. and you will lift up my horn like a wild ox,
my old age [will be] fresh like oil,
12. and my eyes will look upon my enemies;
my ears will hear those who rise up against me, wicked people.
13. The righteous will flourish like a palm tree;
like a cedar tree in Lebanon he will grow.
14. [They will be] transplanted in the house of YHWH;
in the courtyards of our God they will flourish.
15. They will still thrive in old age;
they will be vigorous and fresh
16. in order that people declare that YHWH, my rock, is fair
and there is no injustice in him.
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