Jehovah my God, in thee have I trusted: save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me; Lest he tear my soul like a lion, crushing it while there is no deliverer. Jehovah my God, if I have done this, if there be iniquity in my hands; If I have rewarded evil to him that was at peace with me; (indeed I have freed him that without cause oppressed me;) Let the enemy pursue after my soul, and take it, and let him tread down my life to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah. Arise, Jehovah, in thine anger; lift thyself up against the raging of mine oppressors, and awake for me: thou hast commanded judgment. And the assembly of the peoples shall encompass thee; and for their sakes return thou on high. Jehovah shall minister judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Jehovah, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity which is in me. Oh let the wrong of the wicked come to an end, and establish thou the righteous man; even thou that triest the hearts and reins, the righteous God.

¹⁰My shield is with God, who saveth the upright in heart. ¹¹God is a righteous judge, and a •God who is indignant all the day. ¹²If one turn not, he will sharpen his sword; he hath bent his bow and made it ready, ¹³And he hath prepared for him instruments of death; his arrows hath he made burning. ¹⁴Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, yea, he hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood: ¹⁵He digged a pit, and hollowed it out, and is fallen into the hole that he made. ¹⁶His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violence shall come down upon his own pate. ¹⁷I will praise Jehovah according to his righteousness, and will sing forth the name of Jehovah the Most High.

Psalm 8

To the chief Musician. Upon the Gittith. A Psalm of David.

Jehovah our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy majesty above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established praise because of thine adversaries, to still the enemy and the avenger.

³When I see thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and stars, which thou hast established; ⁴What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? ⁵Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and splendour. ⁶Thou hast made him to rule over the works of thy hands; thou hast put everything under his feet: ⁷Sheep and oxen, all of them, and also the beasts of the field; ⁸The fowl of the heavens, and the fishes of the sea, whatever passeth through the paths of the seas. ⁹Jehovah our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

Psalm 9

To the chief Musician. Upon Muthlabben. A Psalm of David.

I will praise Jehovah with my whole heart; I will recount all thy marvellous works. I will be glad and rejoice in thee; I will sing forth thy name, O Most High. When mine enemies turned back, they stumbled and perished at thy presence: For thou hast maintained my right and my cause. Thou sittest on the throne, judging righteously. Thou hast rebuked the nations, thou hast destroyed the wicked; thou hast put out their name for ever and ever. O enemy! destructions are ended for ever. —Thou hast also destroyed cities, even the remembrance of them hath perished. But Jehovah sitteth for ever; he hath ordained his throne for judgment. And it is he that will judge the world with righteousness; he shall execute judgment upon the peoples with equity. And Jehovah will be a refuge to the oppressed one, a refuge in times of distress. And they that know thy name will confide in thee; for thou, Jehovah, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

¹¹Sing psalms to Jehovah who dwelleth in Zion; tell among the peoples his doings. ¹²For when he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them; the cry of the afflicted ones hath he not forgotten. ¹³Be gracious unto me, O Jehovah; consider mine affliction from them that hate me, lifting me up from the gates of death: ¹⁴That I may declare all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion. I will be joyful in thy salvation. ¹⁵The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made; in the net that they hid is their own foot taken. ¹⁶Jehovah is known by the judgment he hath executed: the wicked is ensnared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah. ¹⁷The wicked shall be turned into Sheol, all the nations that forget God. ¹⁸For the needy one shall not be forgotten alway; the hope of the meek shall not perish for ever. ¹⁹Arise, Jehovah; let not man prevail: let the nations be judged in thy sight. ²⁰Put them in fear, Jehovah: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

Psalm 10

¹Why, Jehovah, standest thou afar off? Why hidest thou thyself in times of distress? ²The wicked, in his pride, doth hotly pursue the afflicted. They shall be taken in the devices that they have imagined. ³For the wicked boasteth of his soul’s desire, and he blesseth the covetous; he contemneth Jehovah. ⁴The wicked saith, in the haughtiness of his countenance, He doth not search out: all his thoughts are, There is no God! ⁵His ways always succeed; thy judgments are far above out of his sight; as for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them. ⁶He saith in his heart, I shall not be moved; from generation to generation I shall be in no adversity. ⁷His mouth is full of cursing, and deceit, and oppression; under his tongue is mischief and iniquity. ⁸He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; in the secret places doth he slay the innocent: his eyes watch for the wretched. ⁹He lieth in wait secretly, like a lion in his thicket; he lieth in wait to catch the afflicted: he doth catch the afflicted, drawing him into his net. ¹⁰He croucheth, he boweth down, that the wretched may fall by his strong ones. ¹¹He saith in his heart, •God hath forgotten, he hideth his face, he will never see it.

¹²Arise, Jehovah; O •God, lift up thy hand: forget not the afflicted. ¹³Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? He hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it. ¹⁴Thou hast seen it, for thou thyself beholdest trouble and vexation, to requite by thy hand. The wretched committeth himself unto thee; thou hast been the helper of the fatherless. ¹⁵Break thou the arm of the wicked, and as for the evil man, seek out his wickedness till thou find none. ¹⁶Jehovah is King for ever and ever: the nations have perished out of his land. ¹⁷Jehovah, thou hast heard the desire of the meek, thou hast established their heart: thou causest thine ear to hear, ¹⁸To do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed one, that the man of the earth may terrify no more.

Psalm 11

To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

In Jehovah have I put my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain? For behold, the wicked bend the bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may in darkness shoot at the upright in heart. If the foundations be destroyed, what shall the righteous do?

⁴Jehovah is in the temple of his holiness; Jehovah, —his throne is in the heavens: his eyes behold, his eyelids try the children of men. ⁵Jehovah trieth the righteous one; but the wicked, and him that loveth violence, his soul hateth. ⁶Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone; and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup. ⁷For righteous is Jehovah; he loveth righteousness, his countenance doth behold the upright.

Psalm 12

To the chief Musician. Upon Sheminith. A Psalm of David.

Save, Jehovah, for the godly man is gone; for the faithful have failed from among the children of men. They speak falsehood every one with his neighbour: with flattering lip, with a double heart, do they speak. Jehovah will cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaketh proud things, Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail, our lips are our own: who is lord over us? Because of the oppression of the afflicted, because of the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith Jehovah, I will set him in safety, at whom they puff. The words of Jehovah are pure words, silver tried in the furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou, Jehovah, wilt keep them, thou wilt preserve them from this generation for ever. The wicked walk about on every side, when vileness is exalted among the children of men.

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