Psalm 92 - A Sabbath Song of Thanksgiving

The only psalm titled for the Sabbath, praising God's morning and night faithfulness.

Psalms 92: A Song for the Sabbath Day

Psalm 92 carries the title 'A Song for the Sabbath Day,' the only psalm in the Psalms overview marked for that specific use, opening with thanks for God's lovingkindness 'in the morning' and faithfulness 'every night.'


A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day. 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.”

That daily renewal of faithfulness parallels the well-known line from <a href="/bible/bsb/lamentations/chapter-3/22">Lamentations 3:22-23</a> that God's mercies are new every morning. The psalm's image of the righteous flourishing like a palm tree follows naturally after the refuge described in <a href="/bible/bsb/psalms/chapter-91">Psalms 91</a>.