Psalm 8:1–10:18

¹O Lord, our Lord,

How majestic is Your name in all the earth,

Who have ^1adisplayed Your splendor above the heavens!

^2aFrom the mouth of infants and nursing babes You have established ^1bstrength

Because of Your adversaries,

To make ^cthe enemy and the revengeful cease.

³When I ^1aconsider ^bYour heavens, the work of Your fingers,

The ^cmoon and the stars, which You have ²ordained;

^4aWhat is man that You ¹take thought of him,

And the son of man that You care for him?

⁵Yet You have made him a ^alittle lower than ¹God,

And ^bYou crown him with ^cglory and majesty!

⁶You make him to ^arule over the works of Your hands;

You have ^bput all things under his feet,

⁷All sheep and oxen,

And also the ¹beasts of the field,

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

Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

^9aO Lord, our Lord,

How majestic is Your name in all the earth!

PSALM 9

A Psalm of Thanksgiving for God’s Justice.

For the choir director; on ^†Muth-labben. A Psalm of David.

¹I will give thanks to the Lord with all ^amy heart;

I will ^btell of all Your ¹wonders.

²I will be glad and ^aexult in You;

I will ^bsing praise to Your name, O ^cMost High.

³When my enemies turn back,

They stumble and ^aperish before You.

⁴For You have ^amaintained ¹my just cause;

You have sat on the throne ^2bjudging righteously.

⁵You have ^arebuked the nations, You have destroyed the wicked;

You have ^bblotted out their name forever and ever.

⁶¹The enemy has come to an end in perpetual ruins,

And You have uprooted the cities;

The very ^amemory of them has perished.

⁷But the ^aLord ¹abides forever;

He has established His ^bthrone for judgment,

⁸And He will ^ajudge the world in righteousness;

He will execute judgment for the peoples with equity.

⁹¹The Lord also will be a ^astronghold for the oppressed,

A stronghold in times of trouble;

¹⁰And ¹those who ^aknow Your name will put their trust in You,

For You, O Lord, have not ^bforsaken those who seek You.

¹¹Sing praises to the Lord, who ^adwells in Zion;

^bDeclare among the peoples His deeds.

¹²For ^aHe who ¹requires blood remembers them;

He does not forget ^bthe cry of the afflicted.

¹³Be gracious to me, O Lord;

See my affliction from those ^awho hate me,

You who ^blift me up from the gates of death,

¹⁴That I may tell of ^aall Your praises,

That in the gates of the daughter of Zion

I may ^brejoice in Your ¹salvation.

¹⁵The nations have sunk down ^ain the pit which they have made;

In the ^bnet which they hid, their own foot has been caught.

¹⁶The Lord has ^amade Himself known;

He has ^bexecuted judgment.

In the work of his own hands the wicked is snared.

¹Higgaion ²Selah.

¹⁷The wicked will ^1areturn to ²Sheol,

Even all the nations who ^bforget God.

¹⁸For the ^aneedy will not always be forgotten,

Nor the ^bhope of the afflicted perish forever.

^19aArise, O Lord, do not let man prevail;

Let the nations be ^bjudged before You.

²⁰Put them ^ain fear, O Lord;

Let the nations know that they are ^bbut men.

Selah.

PSALM 10

A Prayer for the Overthrow of the Wicked.

¹Why ^ado You stand afar off, O Lord?

Why ^bdo You hide ¹Yourself in times of trouble?

²In ^apride the wicked ¹hotly pursue the afflicted;

²Let them be ^bcaught in the plots which they have devised.

³For the wicked ^aboasts of his ^bheart’s desire,

And ¹the greedy man curses and ^cspurns the Lord.

⁴The wicked, in the haughtiness of his countenance, ^adoes not seek Him.

All his ¹thoughts are, “^bThere is no God.”

⁵His ways ^1aprosper at all times;

Your judgments are on high, ^bout of his sight;

As for all his adversaries, he snorts at them.

⁶He says to himself, “^aI will not be moved;

¹Throughout all generations ^bI will not be in adversity.”

⁷His ^amouth is full of curses and deceit and ^boppression;

^cUnder his tongue is mischief and wickedness.

⁸He sits in the ^alurking places of the villages;

In the hiding places he ^bkills the innocent;

His eyes ¹stealthily watch for the ^2cunfortunate.

⁹He lurks in a hiding place as ^aa lion in his ¹lair;

He ^blurks to catch ^cthe afflicted;

He catches the afflicted when he draws him into his ^dnet.

¹⁰He ¹crouches, he ²bows down,

And the ³unfortunate fall ⁴by his mighty ones.

¹¹He ^asays to himself, “God has forgotten;

He has hidden His face; He will never see it.”

¹²Arise, O Lord; O God, ^alift up Your hand.

^bDo not forget the afflicted.

¹³Why has the wicked ^aspurned God?

He has said to himself, “You will not require it.”

¹⁴You have seen it, for You have beheld ^amischief and vexation to ¹take it into Your hand.

The ^2bunfortunate commits himself to You;

You have been the ^chelper of the orphan.

^15aBreak the arm of the wicked and the evildoer,

^1bSeek out his wickedness until You find none.

¹⁶The Lord is ^aKing forever and ever;

^bNations have perished from His land.

¹⁷O Lord, You have heard the ^adesire of the ¹humble;

You will ^bstrengthen their heart, ^cYou will incline Your ear

¹⁸To ¹vindicate the ^aorphan and the ^boppressed,

So that man who is of the earth will no longer cause ^cterror.