Psalm 7–8

In You Do I Take Refuge

7A ^lShiggaion¹ of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite.

¹O Lord my God, in you do I ^mtake refuge;

ⁿsave me from all my pursuers and deliver me,

²lest like ^oa lion they tear my soul apart,

rending it in pieces, with ^pnone to deliver.

³O Lord my God, ^qif I have done this,

if there is ^rwrong in my hands,

⁴if I have repaid ^smy friend² with evil

or ^tplundered my enemy without cause,

⁵let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it,

and let him ^utrample my life to the ground

and lay my glory in the dust. Selah

^6vArise, O Lord, in your anger;

^wlift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;

^xawake for me; you have appointed a judgment.

⁷Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you;

over it return on high.

⁸The Lord ^yjudges the peoples;

^zjudge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness

and according to the integrity that is in me.

⁹Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end,

and may you establish the righteous—

you who ^atest ^bthe minds and hearts,³

O righteous God!

¹⁰My shield is ^cwith God,

who saves ^dthe upright in heart.

¹¹God is ^ea righteous judge,

and a God who feels ^findignation every day.

¹²If a man⁴ does not repent, God⁵ will ^gwhet his sword;

he has ^hbent and ⁱreadied his bow;

¹³he has prepared for him his deadly weapons,

making his ^jarrows ^kfiery shafts.

¹⁴Behold, the wicked man ^lconceives evil

and is ^lpregnant with mischief

and gives birth to lies.

¹⁵He makes ^ma pit, digging it out,

and falls into the hole that he has made.

¹⁶His ⁿmischief returns upon his own head,

and on his own skull his violence descends.

¹⁷I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness,

and I will ^osing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.

How Majestic Is Your Name

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

¹O Lord, our Lord,

how majestic is your ^qname in all the earth!

You have set your ^rglory above the heavens.

^2sOut of the mouth of babies and infants,

you have established ^tstrength because of your foes,

to still ^uthe enemy and the avenger.

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

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

^4ywhat is man that you are ^zmindful of him,

and ^athe son of man that you ^bcare for him?

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

and crowned him with ^dglory and honor.

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

^fyou have put all things under his feet,

⁷all sheep and oxen,

and also the beasts of the field,

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

whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

⁹O Lord, our Lord,

how majestic is your name in all the earth!