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!

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