Psalm 7–8

¹‘The Erring One,’ by David, that he sung to Jehovah concerning the words of Cush a Benjamite. O Jehovah, my God, in Thee I have trusted, Save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me.

²Lest he tear as a lion my soul, Rending, and there is no deliverer.

³O Jehovah, my God, if I have done this, If there is iniquity in my hands,

⁴If I have done my well-wisher evil, And draw mine adversary without cause,

⁵An enemy pursueth my soul, and overtaketh, And treadeth down to the earth my life, And my honour placeth in the dust. Selah.

⁶Rise, O Jehovah, in Thine anger, Be lifted up at the wrath of mine adversaries, And awake Thou for me: Judgment Thou hast commanded:

⁷And a company of peoples compass Thee, And over it on high turn Thou back,

⁸Jehovah doth judge the peoples; Judge me, O Jehovah, According to my righteousness, And according to mine integrity on me,

⁹Let, I pray Thee be ended the evil of the wicked, And establish Thou the righteous, And a trier of hearts and reins is the righteous God.

¹⁰My shield is on God, Saviour of the upright in heart!

¹¹God is a righteous judge, And He is not angry at all times.

¹²If one turn not, His sword he sharpeneth, His bow he hath trodden—He prepareth it,

¹³Yea, for him He hath prepared Instruments of death, His arrows for burning pursuers He maketh.

¹⁴Lo, he travaileth with iniquity, And he hath conceived perverseness, And hath brought forth falsehood.

¹⁵A pit he hath prepared, and he diggeth it, And he falleth into a ditch he maketh.

¹⁶Return doth his perverseness on his head, And on his crown his violence cometh down.

¹⁷I thank Jehovah, According to His righteousness, And praise the name of Jehovah Most High!

Psalm 8

¹To the Overseer, ‘On the Gittith.’ A Psalm of David. Jehovah, our Lord, How honourable Thy name in all the earth! Who settest thine honour on the heavens.

²From the mouths of infants and sucklings Thou hast founded strength, Because of Thine adversaries, To still an enemy and a self-avenger.

³For I see Thy heavens, a work of Thy fingers, Moon and stars that Thou didst establish.

⁴What is man that Thou rememberest him? The son of man that Thou inspectest him?

⁵And causest him to lack a little of Godhead, And with honour and majesty compassest him.

⁶Thou dost cause him to rule Over the works of Thy hands, All Thou hast placed under his feet.

⁷Sheep and oxen, all of them, And also beasts of the field,

⁸Bird of the heavens, and fish of the sea, Passing through the paths of the seas!

⁹Jehovah, our Lord, How honourable Thy name in all the earth!

Psalm 9