Psalm 7

In You Do I Take Refuge

A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite.

1  O Lord my God, in you do I take refuge;
save me from all my pursuers and deliver me,
2  lest like a lion they tear my soul apart,
rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.

3  O Lord my God, if I have done this,
if there is wrong in my hands,
4  if I have repaid my friendt with evil
or plundered my enemy without cause,
5  let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it,
and let him trample my life to the ground
and lay my glory in the dust. Selah

6  Arise, O Lord, in your anger;
lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;
awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.
7  Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you;
over it return on high.

8  The Lord judges the peoples;
judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness
and according to the integrity that is in me.
9  Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end,
and may you establish the righteous—
you who test the minds and hearts,t
O righteous God!
10  My shield is with God,
who saves the upright in heart.
11  God is a righteous judge,
and a God who feels indignation every day.

12  If a mant does not repent, Godt will whet his sword;
he has bent and readied his bow;
13  he has prepared for him his deadly weapons,
making his arrows fiery shafts.
14  Behold, the wicked man conceives evil
and is pregnant with mischief
and gives birth to lies.
15  He makes a pit, digging it out,
and falls into the hole that he has made.
16  His mischief returns upon his own head,
and on his own skull his violence descends.

17  I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness,
and I will sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.

Psalm 8

How Majestic Is Your Name

To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of David.

1  O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.
2  Out of the mouth of babies and infants,
you have established strength because of your foes,
to still the enemy and the avenger.

3  When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
4  what is man that you are mindful of him,
and the son of man that you care for him?

5  Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beingst
and crowned him with glory and honor.
6  You have given him dominion over the works of your hands;
you have put all things under his feet,
7  all sheep and oxen,
and also the beasts of the field,
8  the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,
whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

9  O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Psalm 9

I Will Recount Your Wonderful Deeds

To the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben. A Psalm of David.

1  I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart;
I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.
2  I will be glad and exult in you;
I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

3  When my enemies turn back,
they stumble and perish beforet your presence.
4  For you have maintained my just cause;
you have sat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.

5  You have rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish;
you have blotted out their name forever and ever.
6  The enemy came to an end in everlasting ruins;
their cities you rooted out;
the very memory of them has perished.

7  But the Lord sits enthroned forever;
he has established his throne for justice,
8  and he judges the world with righteousness;
he judges the peoples with uprightness.

9  The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed,
a stronghold in times of trouble.
10  And those who know your name put their trust in you,
for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.

11  Sing praises to the Lord, who sits enthroned in Zion!
Tell among the peoples his deeds!
12  For he who avenges blood is mindful of them;
he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

13  Be gracious to me, O Lord!
See my affliction from those who hate me,
O you who lift me up from the gates of death,
14  that I may recount all your praises,
that in the gates of the daughter of Zion
I may rejoice in your salvation.

15  The nations have sunk in the pit that they made;
in the net that they hid, their own foot has been caught.
16  The Lord has made himself known; he has executed judgment;
the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion.

17  The wicked shall return to Sheol,
all the nations that forget God.

18  For the needy shall not always be forgotten,
and the hope of the poor shall not perish forever.

19  Arise, O Lord! Let not man prevail;
let the nations be judged before you!
20  Put them in fear, O Lord!
Let the nations know that they are but men! Selah