He is like a tree planted beside streams of water
that bears its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither.
Whatever he does prospers.

For the choir director: with stringed instruments. A Davidic psalm.Answer me when I call,
God, who vindicates me.
You freed me from affliction;
be gracious to me and hear my prayer.

You have freed me from the feuds among the people;
You have appointed me the head of nations;
a people I had not known serve me.

He gave their crops to the caterpillar
and the fruit of their labor to the locust.

Why have You broken down its walls
so that all who pass by pick its fruit?

“I relieved his shoulder from the burden;
his hands were freed from carrying the basket.

They will still bear fruit in old age,
healthy and green,

He waters the mountains from His palace;
the earth is satisfied by the fruit of Your labor.

mountains and all hills,
fruit trees and all cedars,