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Biskra (Oasis with Palm Trees). Jan Ciągliński, 1909. Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.

Psalm 92

15 verses · Song of thanksgiving for the Sabbath

The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

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It is good to praise the LORD, and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High,

to proclaim Your loving devotion in the morning and Your faithfulness at night

with the ten-stringed harp and the melody of the lyre.

For You, O LORD, have made me glad by Your deeds;I sing for joy at the works of Your hands.

How great are Your works, O LORD, how deep are Your thoughts!

A senseless man does not know, and a fool does not understand,

that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.

But You, O LORD, are exalted forever!

For surely Your enemies, O LORD, surely Your enemies will perish; all evildoers will be scattered.

But You have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox; with fine oil I have been anointed.

My eyes see the downfall of my enemies; my ears hear the wailing of my wicked foes.

The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God.

In old age they will still bear fruit; healthy and green they will remain,

to proclaim, “The LORD is upright;He is my Rock, and in Him there is no unrighteousness.”

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