Psalm 8:1–9:20

¹O Lord, our Lord,

how majestic is thy name in all the earth!

Thou whose glory above the heavens is chanted

²by the mouth of babes and infants,

thou hast founded a bulwark because of thy foes,

to still the enemy and the avenger.

³When I look at thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,

the moon and the stars which thou hast established;

⁴what is man that thou art mindful of him,

and the son of man that thou dost care for him?

⁵Yet thou hast made him little less than God,

and dost crown him with glory and honor.

⁶Thou hast given him dominion over the works of thy hands;

thou hast put all things under his feet,

⁷all sheep and oxen,

and also the beasts of the field,

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

whatever passes along the paths of the sea.

⁹O Lord, our Lord,

how majestic is thy name in all the earth!

PSALM 9

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

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

I will tell of all thy wonderful deeds.

²I will be glad and exult in thee,

I will sing praise to thy name, O Most High.

³When my enemies turned back,

they stumbled and perished before thee.

⁴For thou hast maintained my just cause;

thou hast sat on the throne giving righteous judgment.

⁵Thou hast rebuked the nations, thou hast destroyed the wicked;

thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.

⁶The enemy have vanished in everlasting ruins;

their cities thou hast rooted out;

the very memory of them has perished.

⁷But the Lord sits enthroned for ever,

he has established his throne for judgment;

⁸and he judges the world with righteousness,

he judges the peoples with equity.

⁹The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed,

a stronghold in times of trouble.

¹⁰And those who know thy name put their trust in thee,

for thou, O Lord, hast not forsaken those who seek thee.

¹¹Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Zion!

Tell among the peoples his deeds!

¹²For he who avenges blood is mindful of them;

he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

¹³Be gracious to me, O Lord!

Behold what I suffer from those who hate me,

O thou who liftest me up from the gates of death,

¹⁴that I may recount all thy praises,

that in the gates of the daughter of Zion

I may rejoice in thy deliverance.

¹⁵The nations have sunk in the pit which they made;

in the net which they hid has their own foot been caught.

¹⁶The Lord has made himself known, he has executed judgment;

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

¹⁷The wicked shall depart to Sheol,

all the nations that forget God.

¹⁸For the needy shall not always be forgotten,

and the hope of the poor shall not perish for ever.

¹⁹Arise, O Lord! Let not man prevail;

let the nations be judged before thee!

²⁰Put them in fear, O Lord!

Let the nations know that they are but men! [Selah]