Psalm 8:1–9:20

¹O Jehovah, our Lord,

How excellent is thy name in all the earth,

Who hast set thy glory upon the heavens!

²Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established strength,

Because of thine adversaries,

That thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

³When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,

The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

⁴What is man, that thou art mindful of him?

And the son of man, that thou visitest him?

⁵For thou hast made him but little lower than God,

And crownest him with glory and honor.

⁶Thou makest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands;

Thou hast put all things under his feet:

⁷All sheep and oxen,

Yea, and the beasts of the field,

⁸The birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,

Whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

⁹O Jehovah, our Lord,

How excellent is thy name in all the earth!

Psalm 9

For the Chief Musician; set to Muth-labben. A Psalm of David.

¹I will give thanks unto Jehovah with my whole heart;

I will show forth all thy marvellous works.

²I will be glad and exult in thee;

I will sing praise to thy name, O thou Most High.

³When mine enemies turn back,

They stumble and perish at thy presence.

⁴For thou hast maintained my right and my cause;

Thou sittest in the throne judging righteously.

⁵Thou hast rebuked the nations, thou hast destroyed the wicked;

Thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.

⁶The enemy are come to an end, they are desolate for ever;

And the cities which thou hast overthrown,

The very remembrance of them is perished.

⁷But Jehovah sitteth as king for ever:

He hath prepared his throne for judgment;

⁸And he will judge the world in righteousness,

He will minister judgment to the peoples in uprightness.

⁹Jehovah also will be a high tower for the oppressed,

A high tower in times of trouble;

¹⁰And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee;

For thou, Jehovah, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

¹¹Sing praises to Jehovah, who dwelleth in Zion:

Declare among the people his doings.

¹²For he that maketh inquisition for blood remembereth them;

He forgetteth not the cry of the poor.

¹³Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah;

Behold my affliction which I suffer of them that hate me,

Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death;

¹⁴That I may show forth all thy praise.

In the gates of the daughter of Zion I will rejoice in thy salvation.

¹⁵The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made:

In the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

¹⁶Jehovah hath made himself known, he hath executed judgment:

The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

¹⁷The wicked shall be turned back unto Sheol,

Even all the nations that forget God.

¹⁸For the needy shall not alway be forgotten,

Nor the expectation of the poor perish for ever.

¹⁹Arise, O Jehovah; let not man prevail:

Let the nations be judged in thy sight.

²⁰Put them in fear, O Jehovah:

Let the nations know themselves to be but men. Selah