30:7 O Lord, in your good favor you made me secure.
Then you rejected me and I was terrified.
34:8 Taste and see that the Lord is good!
How blessed is the one who takes shelter in him!
34:10 Even young lions sometimes lack food and are hungry,
but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.
69:16 Answer me, O Lord, for your loyal love is good!
Because of your great compassion, turn toward me!
Book 3
(Psalms 73-89)
A psalm by Asaph.
73:1 Certainly God is good to Israel,
and to those whose motives are pure!
103:5 who satisfies your life with good things,
so your youth is renewed like an eagle’s.
106:1 Praise the Lord!
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good,
and his loyal love endures!
A song of ascents, by David.
133:1 Look! How good and how pleasant it is
when brothers live together!
135:3 Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good!
Sing praises to his name, for it is pleasant!
147:1 Praise the Lord,
for it is good to sing praises to our God!
Yes, praise is pleasant and appropriate!