1: What a beautiful thing, GOD, to give thanks, to sing an anthem to you, the High God!
2: To announce your love each daybreak, sing your faithful presence all through the night,
3: Accompanied by dulcimer and harp, the full-bodied music of strings.
4: You made me so happy, GOD. I saw your work and I shouted for joy.
5: How magnificent your work, GOD! How profound your thoughts!
6: Dullards never notice what you do; fools never do get it.
7: When the wicked popped up like weeds and all the evil men and women took over, You mowed them down, finished them off once and for all.
8: You, GOD, are High and Eternal.
9: Look at your enemies, GOD! Look at your enemies--ruined! Scattered to the winds, all those hirelings of evil!
10: But you've made me strong as a charging bison, you've honored me with a festive parade.
11: The sight of my critics going down is still fresh, the rout of my malicious detractors. My ears are filled with the sounds of promise:
12: "Good people will prosper like palm trees, Grow tall like Lebanon cedars;
13: transplanted to GOD's courtyard, They'll grow tall in the presence of God,
14: lithe and green, virile still in old age."
15: Such witnesses to upright GOD! My Mountain, my huge, holy Mountain!