Psalms

Chapter 92

How Great Are Your Works!

This Sabbath psalm celebrates the goodness of praising the LORD, reflecting on his steadfast love, faithfulness, and mighty works. It contrasts the apparent flourishing of the wicked with their ultimate destruction, while the righteous are pictured as strong, planted, and fruitful in God's courts. The chapter ends in confident testimony that the LORD is upright, a trustworthy rock in whom there is no injustice.

Psalm 92 joins worship, wisdom, and assurance. It teaches that praise is fitting not only because God acts mightily in the present, but because his rule ultimately exposes the emptiness of wicked prosperity and secures the enduring fruitfulness of the righteous.

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Psalms 92

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How Great Are Your Works!

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A¹ Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day. ²to proclaim Your loving devotion in the morning ³with the ten-stringed harp ⁴For You, O LORD, have made me glad by Your deeds; ⁵How great are Your works, O LORD,

⁶A senseless man does not know, ⁷that though the wicked sprout like grass, ⁸But You, O LORD, are exalted forever! ⁹For surely Your enemies, O LORD, ¹⁰But You have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox; ¹¹My eyes see the downfall of my enemies;

¹²The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, ¹³Planted in the house of the LORD, ¹⁴In old age they will still bear fruit; ¹⁵to proclaim, “The LORD is upright; He is my Rock,

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01vv. 1-15How Great Are Your Works!The psalm opens by calling it good to give thanks to the LORD and to proclaim his steadfast love in the morning and his faithfulness at night with musical praise. It rejoices in God's works, then contrasts the shallow flourishing of the wicked with the LORD's everlasting exaltation and the certain scattering of his enemies. From there the focus turns to the speaker's renewed strength and finally to the righteous as trees planted in God's house, still bearing fruit in old age as they proclaim the uprightness of the LORD.