It Is Good to Sing Thy Praises

It is good to sing Thy prais­es

And to thank Thee

O Most High

Showing forth Thy lov­ing­kind­ness

When the morn­ing lights the sky.

It is good when night is fall­ing

Of Thy faith­ful­ness to tell

While with sweet

me­lo­di­ous prais­es

Songs of ad­or­ation swell.

Thou hast filled my heart with glad­ness

Through the works Thy hands have wrought;

Thou hast made my life vic­tor­ious

Treat Thy works and deep Thy thought.

Thou

O Lord

on high ex­alt­ed

Reignest ev­er­more in might;

All Thy ene­mies shall per­ish

Sin be ban­ished from Thy sight.

But the good shall live be­fore Thee

Planted in Thy dwell­ing place.

Fruitful trees and ever ver­dant

Nourished by Thy bound­less grace.

In His good­ness to the right­eous

God His right­eous­ness dis­plays;

God my rock

my strength and re­fuge

Just and true are all His ways.