How Majestic Is Your Name

8 To the choirmaster: according to The pGittith.1 A Psalm of David.

1  O Lord, our Lord,

how majestic is your qname in all the earth!

You have set your rglory above the heavens.

2  sOut of the mouth of babies and infants,

you have established tstrength because of your foes,

to still uthe enemy and the avenger.

3  When I vlook at your heavens, the work of your wfingers,

the moon and the stars, xwhich you have set in place,

4  ywhat is man that you are zmindful of him,

and athe son of man that you bcare for him?

5  Yet you have made him a little lower than cthe heavenly beings2

and crowned him with dglory and honor.

6  You have given him edominion over the works of your hands;

fyou have put all things under his feet,

7  all sheep and oxen,

and also the beasts of the field,

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

whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

9  O Lord, our Lord,

how majestic is your name in all the earth!

I Will Recount Your Wonderful Deeds

9 1 To the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben.2 A Psalm of David.

1  I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart;

I will recount all of your gwonderful deeds.

2  I will be glad and hexult in you;

I will ising praise to your name, jO Most High.

3  When my enemies turn back,

they stumble and perish before3 your presence.

4  For you have kmaintained my just cause;

you have lsat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.

5  You have mrebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish;

you have nblotted out their name forever and ever.

6  The enemy came to an end in everlasting ruins;

their cities you rooted out;

the very memory of them has perished.

7  But the Lord sits enthroned forever;

he has established his throne for justice,

8  and he ojudges the world with righteousness;

he pjudges the peoples with uprightness.

9  The Lord is qa stronghold for rthe oppressed,

a stronghold in stimes of trouble.

10  And those who tknow your name put their trust in you,

for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.

11  Sing praises to the Lord, who usits enthroned in Zion!

Tell among the peoples his vdeeds!

12  For he who wavenges blood is mindful of them;

he xdoes not forget the cry of the afflicted.

13  yBe gracious to me, O Lord!

See my affliction from those who hate me,

O you who lift me up from zthe gates of death,

14  that I may recount all your praises,

that in the gates of athe daughter of Zion

I may brejoice in your salvation.

15  The nations have sunk in cthe pit that they made;

in dthe net that they hid, their own foot has been caught.

16  The Lord has made himself eknown; he has executed judgment;

the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion.4 Selah

17  The wicked shall freturn to Sheol,

all the nations that gforget God.

18  For the needy shall not always be forgotten,

and hthe hope of the poor shall not perish forever.

19  iArise, O Lord! Let not jman prevail;

let the nations be judged before you!

20  Put them in fear, O Lord!

Let the nations know that they are but jmen! Selah

Why Do You Hide Yourself?

10 Why, O Lord, do you stand kfar away?

Why ldo you hide yourself in mtimes of trouble?

2  In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor;

let them nbe caught in the schemes that they have devised.

3  For the wicked oboasts of the desires of his soul,

and the one greedy for gain pcurses1 and qrenounces the Lord.

4  In the pride of his face2 the wicked does not qseek him;3

all his thoughts are, r“There is no God.”

5  His ways prosper at all times;

your judgments are on high, sout of his sight;

as for all his foes, he tpuffs at them.

6  He usays in his heart, “I shall not be moved;

throughout all generations I vshall not meet adversity.”

7  wHis mouth is filled with cursing and xdeceit and yoppression;

zunder his tongue are amischief and biniquity.

8  He sits in ambush in the villages;

in chiding places he murders the innocent.

His eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;

9  he lurks in ambush like da lion in his ethicket;

he flurks that he may seize the poor;

he seizes the poor when he draws him into his gnet.

10  The helpless are crushed, sink down,

and fall by his might.

11  He says in his heart, “God has forgotten,

he has hhidden his face, he iwill never see it.”

12  jArise, O Lord; O God, klift up your hand;

lforget not the afflicted.

13  Why does the wicked mrenounce God

and say in his heart, “You will not ncall to account”?

14  But you do see, for you onote mischief and vexation,

that you may take it into your hands;

to you the helpless pcommits himself;

you have been qthe helper of the fatherless.

15  rBreak the arm of the wicked and evildoer;

scall his wickedness to account till you find none.

16  tThe Lord is king forever and ever;

the unations perish from his land.

17  O Lord, you hear the desire of the afflicted;

you will vstrengthen their heart; you will incline your ear

18  to wdo justice to the fatherless and xthe oppressed,

so that yman who is of the earth may strike terror no more.

The Lord Is in His Holy Temple

11 To the choirmaster. Of David.

1  In the Lord I take refuge;

how can you say to my soul,

z“Flee like a bird to your mountain,

2  for behold, the wicked abend the bow;

bthey have fitted their arrow to the string

to shoot in the dark at the upright in heart;

3  if cthe foundations are destroyed,

what can the righteous do?”1

4  dThe Lord is in his holy temple;

the Lord’s ethrone is in heaven;

his eyes see, his eyelids ftest the children of man.

5  The Lord gtests the righteous,

but hhis soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.

6  Let him rain coals on the wicked;

ifire and sulfur and a scorching wind shall be jthe portion of their cup.

7  For the Lord is righteous;

he kloves righteous deeds;

lthe upright shall behold his face.

The Faithful Have Vanished

12 To the choirmaster: according to The Sheminith.1 A Psalm of David.

1  Save, O Lord, for mthe godly one is gone;

for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man.

2  Everyone nutters lies to his neighbor;

with oflattering lips and pa double heart they speak.

3  May the Lord cut off all oflattering lips,

the tongue that makes qgreat boasts,

4  those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail,

our lips are with us; who is master over us?”

5  “Because rthe poor are plundered, because the needy groan,

sI will now arise,” says the Lord;

“I will place him in the tsafety for which he longs.”

6  uThe words of the Lord are pure words,

like silver refined in a furnace on the ground,

purified seven times.

7  You, O Lord, will keep them;

you will guard us2 from this generation forever.

8  On every side the wicked prowl,

as vileness is exalted among the children of man.

How Long, O Lord?

13 To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

1  vHow long, O Lord? Will you wforget me forever?

How long will you xhide your face from me?

2  How long must I take ycounsel in my soul

and have sorrow in my heart all the day?

How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

3  zConsider and answer me, O Lord my God;

alight up my eyes, lest bI sleep the sleep of death,

4  clest my enemy say, “I have prevailed over him,”

lest my foes rejoice because I am dshaken.

5  But I have etrusted in your steadfast love;

my heart shall frejoice in your salvation.

6  I will sing to the Lord,

because he has dealt bountifully with me.