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. Good to give thanks to Jehovah, And to sing praises to Thy name, O Most High,

To declare in the morning Thy kindness, And Thy faithfulness in the nights.

On ten strings and on psaltery, On higgaion, with harp.

For Thou hast caused me to rejoice, O Jehovah, in Thy work, Concerning the works of Thy hands I sing.

How great have been Thy works, O Jehovah, Very deep have been Thy thoughts.

A brutish man doth not know, And a fool understandeth not this; --

When the wicked flourish as a herb, And blossom do all workers of iniquity -- For their being destroyed for ever and ever!

And Thou `art' high to the age, O Jehovah.

For, lo, Thine enemies, O Jehovah, For, lo, Thine enemies, do perish, Separate themselves do all workers of iniquity.

And Thou exaltest as a reem my horn, I have been anointed with fresh oil.

And mine eye looketh on mine enemies, Of those rising up against me, The evil doers, do mine ears hear.

The righteous as a palm-tree flourisheth, As a cedar in Lebanon he groweth.

Those planted in the house of Jehovah, In the courts of our God do flourish.

Still they bring forth in old age, Fat and flourishing are they,

To declare that upright `is' Jehovah my rock, And there is no perverseness in Him!

That daily renewal of faithfulness parallels the well-known line from <a href="/bible/ylt/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/ylt/psalms/chapter-91">Psalms 91</a>.