Psalm 5:1–7:17

1  Give ear to my words, O Lord;

consider my ugroaning.

2  Give attention to the sound of my cry,

my vKing and my God,

for wto you do I pray.

3  O Lord, in xthe morning you hear my voice;

in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you1 and ywatch.

4  For you are not a God who delights in wickedness;

evil may not dwell with you.

5  The zboastful shall not astand before your eyes;

you bhate all evildoers.

6  You destroy those who speak clies;

the Lord abhors dthe bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

7  But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love,

will enter your house.

I will ebow down ftoward your gholy temple

in the fear of you.

8  hLead me, O Lord, in your righteousness

because of my enemies;

imake your way straight before me.

9  For there is no truth in their mouth;

their inmost self is jdestruction;

ktheir throat is lan open grave;

they mflatter with their tongue.

10  nMake them bear their guilt, O God;

let them ofall by their own counsels;

because of the abundance of their transgressions cast them out,

for they have rebelled against you.

11  But let all who ptake refuge in you qrejoice;

let them ever sing for joy,

and spread your protection over them,

that those who love your name may rexult in you.

12  For you sbless the righteous, O Lord;

you tcover him with favor as with ua shield.

O Lord, Deliver My Life

6 To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments; according to vThe Sheminith.1 A Psalm of David.

1  O Lord, wrebuke me not in your anger,

nor xdiscipline me in your wrath.

2  Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing;

yheal me, O Lord, zfor my bones are troubled.

3  My asoul also is greatly troubled.

But you, O Lord—bhow long?

4  Turn, O Lord, deliver my life;

save me for the sake of your steadfast love.

5  For in cdeath there is no remembrance of you;

in Sheol who will give you praise?

6  I am dweary with my emoaning;

every night I flood my bed with tears;

I drench my couch with my weeping.

7  My feye wastes away because of grief;

it grows weak because of all my foes.

8  gDepart from me, all you hworkers of evil,

for the Lord ihas heard the sound of my weeping.

9  The Lord has heard my jplea;

the Lord accepts my prayer.

10  All my enemies shall be ashamed and greatly troubled;

they shall kturn back and be put to shame in a moment.

In You Do I Take Refuge

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

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

nsave me from all my pursuers and deliver me,

2  lest like oa lion they tear my soul apart,

rending it in pieces, with pnone to deliver.

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

if there is rwrong in my hands,

4  if I have repaid smy friend2 with evil

or tplundered my enemy without cause,

5  let 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

6  vArise, O Lord, in your anger;

wlift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;

xawake for me; you have appointed a judgment.

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

over it return on high.

8  The Lord yjudges the peoples;

zjudge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness

and according to the integrity that is in me.

9  Oh, 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!

10  My shield is cwith God,

who saves dthe upright in heart.

11  God is ea righteous judge,

and a God who feels findignation every day.

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

he has hbent and ireadied his bow;

13  he has prepared for him his deadly weapons,

making his jarrows kfiery shafts.

14  Behold, the wicked man lconceives evil

and is lpregnant with mischief

and gives birth to lies.

15  He makes ma pit, digging it out,

and falls into the hole that he has made.

16  His nmischief returns upon his own head,

and on his own skull his violence descends.

17  I 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.