Psalm 8–10
To the chief Musician *upon Gittith, A Psalm of David.
How aexcellent is thy name in all the earth!
Who bhast set thy glory above the heavens.
2 cOut of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou †ordained strength
Because of thine enemies,
That thou mightest still dthe enemy and the avenger.
3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy efingers,
The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
4 fWhat is man, that thou art mindful of him?
And gthe son of man, that thou visitest him?
5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels,
And hast crowned him with hglory and hhonour.
6 iThou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands;
kThou hast put all things under his feet:
7 †All sheep and oxen,
Yea, and the beasts of the field;
8 iThe fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea,
And whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
9 lO Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
*To the chief Musician *upon †Muth-labben, A Psalm of David.
1 I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart;
I will shew forth all thy amarvellous works.
2 I will be glad and brejoice in thee:
cI will sing praise to thy name, dO thou most High.
3 When mine enemies are turned back,
They shall fall and perish at thy presence.
4 For †thou hast maintained my right and my cause;
Thou satest ein the throne judging †right.
5 eeThou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked,
Thou hast fput out their name for ever and ever.
6 g||O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end:
And thou hast destroyed cities;
Their memorial is perished with them.
7 But hthe Lord shall endure for ever:
He hath iprepared his throne for judgment.
8 And khe shall judge the world in righteousness,
lHe shall minister judgment to the people lmin uprightness.
9 The Lord also will be †a refuge for mmthe oppressed,
†A refuge nin times of trouble.
10 And they that oknow thy name will put their trust in thee:
For thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
11 Sing praises to the Lord, which dwelleth in Zion:
Declare among the people phis doings.
12 When qhe maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them:
He forgetteth not the cry of the ||humble.
13 rHave mercy upon me, O Lord;
Consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me,
Thou that liftest me up from sthe gates of death:
14 That I may shew forth all thy praise
In the gates of the daughter of Zion:
I will trejoice tuin thy salvation.
15 xThe heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made:
In the ynet which they hid is their own foot taken.
16 zThe Lord is known by the judgment which he executeth:
The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.
||Higgaion. Selah.
17 The wicked shall be turned into hell,
And all the nations athat forget God.
18 For the needy shall not alway be forgotten:
bThe expectation of cthe poor shall dnot perish for ever.
19 Arise, O Lord; let not man prevail:
Let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
That the nations may eknow themselves to be but men. Selah.
1 Why standest thou afar off, O Lord?
Why hidest thou thyself ain times of trouble?
2 †The wicked in his pride doth bpersecute the poor:
cLet them be taken in the edevices that they have imagined.
3 For the wicked boasteth of his †heart’s desire,
And ||blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth.
4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after dGod:
||God is not in all his ethoughts.
5 His ways are always grievous;
fThy judgments are far above out of his sight:
As for all his enemies, ghe puffeth at them.
6 hHe hath said in his heart, iI shall not be moved:
jFor I shall †never be in adversity.
7 jjHis mouth is full of cursing and †deceit and kfraud:
lUnder his tongue is mmischief and ||vanity.
8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages:
nIn the secret places doth he murder the innocent:
His eyes †are privily set against othe poor.
9 pHe lieth in wait †secretly qas a lion in his rden:
He lieth in wait to catch the poor:
He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into shis net.
10 †He croucheth, and thumbleth himself,
That othe poor may fall ||by his strong ones.
11 hHe hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten:
uHe hideth his face; xhe will never see it.
12 Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up thine hand:
Forget not the ||humble.
13 Wherefore doth the wicked ycontemn God?
hHe hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not zrequire it.
14 Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite,
aTo requite it with thy hand:
oThe poor †bcommitteth himself unto thee;
cThou art the helper of the fatherless.
15 dBreak thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man:
zSeek out his wickedness till thou find none.
16 eThe Lord is King for ever and ever:
The heathen are perished out of his land.
17 Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the fhumble:
Thou wilt ||prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear: