Psalm 4–9

Psalm 4

¹Unto the end, in verses. A psalm for David.

²When I called upon him, the God of my justice heard me: when I was in distress, thou hast enlarged me. Have mercy on me: and hear my prayer.

³O ye sons of men, how long will you be dull of heart? why do you love vanity, and seek after lying?

⁴Know ye also that the Lord hath made his holy one wonderful: the Lord will hear me when I shall cry unto him.

⁵Be ye angry, and sin not: the things you say in your hearts, be sorry for them upon your beds.

⁶Offer up the sacrifice of justice, and trust in the Lord: many say, Who sheweth us good things?

⁷The light of thy countenance, O Lord, is signed upon us: thou hast given gladness in my heart.

⁸By the fruit of their corn, their wine, and oil, they are multiplied:

⁹In peace in the self same I will sleep, and I will rest:

¹⁰For thou, O Lord, singularly hast settled me in hope.

Psalm 5

¹Unto the end, for her that obtaineth the inheritance. A psalm for David.

²Give ear, O Lord, to my words, understand my cry.

³Hearken to the voice of my prayer, O my King and my God.

⁴For to thee will I pray: O Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear my voice.

⁵In the morning I will stand before thee, and I will see: because thou art not a God that willest iniquity.

⁶Neither shall the wicked dwell near thee: nor shall the unjust abide before thy eyes.

⁷Thou hatest all the workers of iniquity: thou wilt destroy all that speak a lie. The bloody and the deceitful man the Lord will abhor.

⁸But as for me in the multitude of thy mercy, I will come into thy house; I will worship towards thy holy temple, in thy fear.

⁹Conduct me, O Lord, in thy justice: because of my enemies, direct my way in thy sight.

¹⁰For there is no truth in their mouth: their heart is vain.

¹¹Their throat is an open sepulchre: they dealt deceitfully with their tongues: judge them, O God. Let them fall from their devices: according to the multitude of their wickednesses cast them out: for they have provoked thee, O Lord.

¹²But let all them be glad that hope in thee: they shall rejoice for ever, and thou shalt dwell in them. And all they that love thy name shall glory in thee.

¹³For thou wilt bless the just. O Lord, thou hast crowned us, as with a shield of thy good will.

Psalm 6

¹Unto the end, in verses, a psalm for David, for the octave.

²O Lord, rebuke me not in thy indignation, nor chastise me in thy wrath.

³Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am weak: heal me, O Lord, for my bones are troubled.

⁴And my soul is troubled exceedingly: but thou, O Lord, how long?

⁵Turn to me, O Lord, and deliver my soul: O save me for thy mercy’s sake.

⁶For there is no one in death, that is mindful of thee: and who shall confess to thee in hell?

⁷I have laboured in my groanings, every night I will wash my bed: I will water my couch with my tears.

⁸My eye is troubled through indignation: I have grown old amongst all my enemies.

⁹Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity: for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping.

¹⁰The Lord hath heard my supplication: the Lord hath received my prayer.

¹¹Let all my enemies be ashamed, and be very much troubled: let them be turned back, and be ashamed very speedily.

Psalm 7

¹The psalm of David, which he sung to the Lord, for the words of Chusi, the son of Jemini.

²O Lord, my God, in thee have I put my trust; save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me.

³Lest at any time he seize upon my soul like a lion, while there is no one to redeem me, nor to save.

⁴O Lord, my God, if I have done this thing, if there be iniquity in my hands:

⁵If I have rendered to them that repaid me evils, let me deservedly fall empty before my enemies.

⁶Let the enemy pursue my soul, and take it, and tread down my life, on the earth, and bring down my glory to the dust.

⁷Rise up, O Lord, in thy anger: and be thou exalted in the borders of my enemies. And arise, O Lord, my God, in the precept which thou hast commanded:

⁸And a congregation of people shall surround thee. And for their sakes return thou on high.

⁹The Lord judgeth the people. Judge me, O Lord, according to my justice, and according to my innocence in me.

¹⁰The wickedness of sinners shall be brought to nought; and thou shalt direct the just: the searcher of hearts and reins is God. Just

¹¹Is my help from the Lord; who saveth the upright of heart.

¹²God is a just judge, strong and patient: is he angry every day?

¹³Except you will be converted, he will brandish his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

¹⁴And in it he hath prepared to instruments of death, he hath made ready his arrows for them that burn.

¹⁵Behold he hath been in labour with injustice: he hath conceived sorrow, and brought forth iniquity.

¹⁶He hath opened a pit and dug it: and he is fallen into the hole he made.

¹⁷His sorrow shall be turned on his own head: and his iniquity shall come down upon his crown.

¹⁸I will give glory to the Lord according to his justice: and will sing to the name of the Lord the most high.

Psalm 8

¹Unto the end, for the presses: a psalm for David.

²O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is thy name in the whole earth! For thy magnificence is elevated above the heavens.

³Out of the mouth of infants and of sucklings thou hast perfected praise, because of thy enemies, that thou mayst destroy the enemy and the avenger.

⁴For I will behold thy heavens, the works of thy fingers: the moon and the stars which thou hast founded.

⁵What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?

⁶Thou hast made him a little less than the angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honour:

⁷And hast set him over the works of thy hands.

⁸Thou hast subjected all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen: moreover, the beasts also of the fields.

⁹The birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea, that pass through the paths of the sea.

¹⁰O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is thy name in the whole earth!

Psalm 9

¹Unto the end, for the hidden things of the Son. A psalm for David.

²I will give praise to thee, O Lord, with my whole heart: I will relate all thy wonders.

³I will be glad, and rejoice in thee: I will sing to thy name, O thou most high.

⁴When my enemy shall be turned back: they shall be weakened, and perish before thy face.

⁵For thou hast maintained my judgment and my cause: thou hast sat on the throne, who judgest justice.

⁶Thou hast rebuked the Gentiles, and the wicked one hath perished; thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.

⁷The swords of the enemy have failed unto the end: and their cities thou hast destroyed. Their memory hath perished with a noise:

⁸But the Lord remaineth for ever. He hath prepared his throne in judgment:

⁹And he shall judge the world in equity, he shall judge the people in justice.

¹⁰And the Lord is become a refuge for the poor: a helper in due time in tribulation.

¹¹And let them trust in thee who know thy name: for thou hast not forsaken them that seek thee, O Lord.

¹²Sing ye to the Lord, who dwelleth in Sion: declare his ways among the Gentiles:

¹³For requiring their blood, he hath remembered them: he hath not forgotten the cry of the poor.

¹⁴Have mercy on me, O Lord: see my humiliation which I suffer from my enemies.

¹⁵Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death, that I may declare all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion.

¹⁶I will rejoice in thy salvation: the Gentiles have stuck fast in the destruction which they prepared. Their foot hath been taken in the very snare which they hid.

¹⁷The Lord shall be known when he executeth judgments: the sinner hath been caught in the works of his own hands.

¹⁸The wicked shall be turned into hell, all the nations that forget God.

¹⁹For the poor man shall not be forgotten to the end: the patience of the poor shall not perish for ever.

²⁰Arise, O Lord, let not man be strengthened: let the Gentiles be judged in thy sight.

²¹Appoint, O Lord, a lawgiver over them: that the Gentiles may know themselves to be but men.

²²Why, O Lord, hast thou retired afar off? why dost thou slight us in our wants, in the time of trouble?

²³Whilst the wicked man is proud, the poor is set on fire: they are caught in the counsels which they devise.

²⁴For the sinner is praised in the desires of his soul: and the unjust man is blessed.

²⁵The sinner hath provoked the Lord, according to the multitude of his wrath, he will not seek him:

²⁶God is not before his eyes: his ways are filthy at all times. Thy judgments are removed from his sight: he shall rule over all his enemies.

²⁷For he hath said in his heart: I shall not be moved from generation to generation, and shall be without evil.

²⁸His mouth is full of cursing, and of bitterness, and of deceit: under his tongue are labour and sorrow.

²⁹He sitteth in ambush with the rich, in private places, that he may kill the innocent.

³⁰His eyes are upon the poor man: he lieth in wait, in secret, like a lion in his den. He lieth in ambush, that he may catch the poor man: so catch the poor, whilst he draweth him to him.

³¹In his net he will bring him down, he will crouch and fall, when he shall have power over the poor.

³²For he hath said in his heart: God hath forgotten, he hath turned away his face, not to see to the end.

³³Arise, O Lord God, let thy hand be exalted: forget not the poor.

³⁴Wherefore hath the wicked provoked God? for he hath said in his heart: He will not require it.

³⁵Thou seest it, for thou considerest labour and sorrow: that thou mayst deliver them into thy hands. To thee is the poor man left: thou wilt be a helper to the orphan.

³⁶Break thou the arm of the sinner and of the malignant: his sin shall be sought, and shall not be found.

³⁷The Lord shall reign to eternity, yea, for ever and ever: ye Gentiles shall perish from his land.

³⁸The Lord hath heard the desire of the poor: thy ear hath heard the preparation of their heart.

³⁹To judge for the fatherless and for the humble, that man may no more…