It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD,
and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:
² To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning,
and thy faithfulness every night,
³ Upon an instrument of ten strings,
and upon the psaltery;
upon the harp with a solemn sound.
⁴ For thou, LORD,
hast made me glad through thy work:
I will triumph in the works of thy hands.

⁵ O LORD,
how great are thy works!
and thy thoughts are very deep.
⁶ A brutish man knoweth not;
neither doth a fool understand this.

⁷ When the wicked spring as the grass,
and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish;
it is that they shall be destroyed for evermore [ever, ever]:
⁸ But thou, LORD,
art most high for evermore.
⁹ For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD,
for, lo, thine enemies
shall perish;
all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
¹⁰ But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn:
I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
¹¹ Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies,
and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.
¹² The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree:
he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
¹³ Those that be planted in the house of the LORD
shall flourish in the courts of our God.
¹⁴ They shall still bring forth fruit in old age;
they shall be fat and flourishing;
¹⁵ To shew that the LORD is upright:
he is my rock,
and there is no unrighteousness in him.

* NOTE: On Opening and Closing Comments in the Psalms.
[Some commentators take the Psalm in Habakkuk 3 to be a standard model for the Psalms.
Habakkuk's Psalm begins with the name of the composer (Habakkuk) and a musical notation ("upon Shigionoth").
It closes with a dedication or a "send to" notice ("To the chief singer on my stringed instruments").
I have arranged similar material, where it is found in the Psalter, in accord with the model in Habakkuk.]