Psalm 92
The full text of Psalm 92 in the Trinity Bible Version — clear modern English, translated from the original Hebrew. Free to read.
A psalm. A song for the Sabbath day.
1 It is good to give thanks to the LORD,
to sing praise to your name, O Most High,
2 to declare your faithful love in the morning
and your faithfulness by night,
3 to the music of the ten-stringed harp,
to the melody of the lyre.
4 For you, O LORD, have made me glad by your deeds;
at the works of your hands I shout for joy.
5 How great are your works, O LORD!
Your thoughts are very deep.
6 The senseless man does not know;
the fool does not understand this:
7 that when the wicked sprout like grass
and all evildoers flourish,
it is that they may be destroyed forever.
8 But you, O LORD, are on high forever.
9 For look—your enemies, O LORD,
for look—your enemies shall perish;
all evildoers shall be scattered.
10 But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox;
I am anointed with fresh oil.
11 My eye looks on those who lie in wait for me;
my ears hear the evildoers who rise against me.
12 The righteous flourish like the palm tree
and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
13 Planted in the house of the LORD,
they flourish in the courts of our God.
14 They still bear fruit in old age;
they are ever full of sap and green,
15 declaring that the LORD is upright;
he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
Translation notes (3)
- Psalm 92:3a Hebrew names three terms: asor, 'ten' (an instrument of ten strings), nevel, a larger harp-like instrument, and kinnor, the smaller lyre associated with David. The word translated 'melody' is higgayon, elsewhere a term for murmuring or meditation (Psalm 19:14), here evidently the resonant sound of plucked strings.
- Psalm 92:10a The horn, Hebrew qeren (קֶרֶן), is a standard idiom for strength and honor, here heightened by the re'em, 'wild ox', the powerful aurochs of the ancient Near East. The verb translated 'anointed', balal, literally means 'to mix' or 'to drench', suggesting being saturated with oil rather than the formal anointing of kings and priests.
- Psalm 92:12a Hebrew tamar (תָּמָר), 'date palm', and erez (אֶרֶז), 'cedar', name two of the longest-lived and most productive trees known in ancient Israel: the palm bears fruit for decades and the Lebanese cedar grows to great height and age. The image deliberately contrasts with verse 7, where the wicked sprout like short-lived grass.
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