It is good to sing praise to you, Lord,
and to thank you for all your blessings,
to proclaim your love in the morning
and your faithfulness every night,
with the music of the human voice
or the melody of my silence.
For you let me delight in your world, Lord;
you make my heart sing with joy.
How great is your goodness, Lord;
how unfathomable your justice!
It can't be seen by our eyes
and can't be grasped by our thinking;
but every secret is told,
every crime is punished,
every good deed is rewarded,
every wrong is redressed.
Though chaos rules on the surface,
in the depths all becomes law.
And the wise flourish like palm trees;
they grow like the cedars of Lebanon.
They are planted in the dark soil of God,
and their leaves keep turning to his light.
Even in old age they bear fruit;
they are green and supple and strong:
living proof that the Lord
is just, and his way is perfect.