Psalms — Chapter 92
A psalm. A song; for the sabbath day.
It is good to praise GOD,to sing hymns to Your name, O Most High,
To proclaim Your steadfast love at daybreak,Your faithfulness each night
With a ten-stringed harp,with voice and lyre together.
You have gladdened me by Your deeds, O ETERNAL One;I shout for joy at Your handiwork.
How great are Your works, O ETERNAL One,how very subtleasubtle Or “profound.” Your designs!
A brute cannot know,a fool cannot understand this:
though the wicked sprout like grass,though all evildoers blossom,it is only that they may be destroyed forever.
But You are exalted, O ETERNAL One, for all time.
Surely, Your enemies, O ETERNAL One,surely, Your enemies perish;all evildoers are scattered.
You raise my horn high like that of a wild ox;I am soaked in freshening oil.
I shall see the defeat of my watchful foes,hear of the downfall of the wicked who beset me.
The righteous bloom like a date-palm;they thrive like a cedar in Lebanon;
planted in the house of GOD,they flourish in the courts of our God.
In old age they still produce fruit;they are full of sap and freshness—
attesting that GOD is upright,my rock, in whom there is no wrong.
✦ Connected Across Traditions
The Golden Rule
Matthew 7:12
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
Hadith (An-Nawawi 13)
“None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.”
Mahabharata 5.1517
“One should never do to another what one regards as injurious to oneself.”
Dhammapada 10:1
“All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.”
Impermanence & Letting Go
Dhammapada 20:277
“All conditioned things are impermanent. When one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.”
Tao Te Ching 76
“A man is born gentle and weak. At his death he is hard and stiff. The soft and yielding is the disciple of life.”
Ecclesiastes 3:1-2
“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.”
Bhagavad Gita 2:22
“As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones.”
The Path to Wisdom
Dhammapada 20:282
“Wisdom springs from meditation; without meditation wisdom wanes.”
Analects 2:11
“If you study the past and use it to understand the present, you are worthy of being a teacher.”
Tao Te Ching 33
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.”
Quran 39:9
“Are those who know equal to those who do not know?”
Good vs Evil / Light vs Darkness
Yasna 30:3
“Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action.”
John 1:5
“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”
Dhammapada 1:1-2
“Mind is the forerunner of all actions. If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows like a shadow.”
Bhagavad Gita 16:21
“There are three gates to self-destructive hell: lust, anger, and greed. Therefore, one must learn to give these up.”