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 presume to magnify himself upon earth.

Psalm 10

¹Unto the end. A psalm to David.

²In the Lord I put my trust: how then do you say to my soul: Get thee away from hence to the mountain, like a sparrow.

³For, lo, the wicked have bent their bow: they have prepared their arrows in the quiver, to shoot in the dark the upright of heart.

⁴For they have destroyed the things which thou hast made: but what has the just man done?

⁵The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord’s throne is in heaven. His eyes look on the poor man: his eyelids examine the sons of men.

⁶The Lord trieth the just and the wicked: but he that loveth iniquity, hateth his own soul.

⁷He shall rain snares upon sinners: fire and brimstone, and storms of winds, shall be the portion of their cup.

⁸For the Lord is just, and hath loved justice: his countenance hath beheld righteousness.

Psalm 11

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

²Save me, O Lord, for there is now no saint: truths are decayed from among the children of men.

³They have spoken vain things, every one to his neighbour: with deceitful lips, and with a double heart have they spoken.

⁴May the Lord destroy all deceitful lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things.

⁵Who have said: We will magnify our tongue: our lips are our own: who is Lord over us?

⁶By reason of the misery of the needy, and the groans of the poor, now will I arise, saith the Lord. I will set him in safety: I will deal confidently in his regard.

⁷The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried by the fire, purged from the earth, refined seven times.

⁸Thou, O Lord, wilt preserve us: and keep us from this generation for ever.

⁹The wicked walk round about: according to thy highness, thou hast multiplied the children of men.

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