Make music to the Lord most high
1 Make music to the Lord most high
whose praise is our delight:
we sing your love as day begins,
your faithfulness by night.
2 Lord, when we see all you have done
our songs of joy resound:
your handiwork, how vast it is,
your counsels, how profound!
3 The godless mind will never know
because its sense is void
that though the wicked spread like grass,
they all shall be destroyed.
4 For ever, Lord, you are supreme;
your throne remains on high
while rebels meet eternal doom
and evildoers die.
5 But like the cedar and the palm
the righteous stand serene;
they flourish in the house of God,
their leaves are fresh and green.
6 To fruitful age they still proclaim
the Lord who makes them new
our God, in whom no wrong is found,
my Rock, for ever true.
Christopher Idle after Psalm 92
© Christopher Idle/Jubilate Hymns Ltd
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