Psalm 8:1–9:20

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

¹To the Overseer, ‘On the Death of Labben.’—A Psalm of David. I confess, O Jehovah, with all my heart, I recount all Thy wonders,

²I rejoice and exult in Thee, I praise Thy Name, O Most High.

³In mine enemies turning backward, they stumble and perish from Thy face.

⁴For Thou hast done my judgment and my right. Thou hast sat on a throne, A judge of righteousness.

⁵Thou hast rebuked nations, Thou hast destroyed the wicked, Their name Thou hast blotted out to the age and for ever.

⁶O thou Enemy, Finished have been destructions for ever, As to cities thou hast plucked up, Perished hath their memorial with them.

⁷And Jehovah to the age abideth, He is preparing for judgment His throne.

⁸And He judgeth the world in righteousness, He judgeth the peoples in uprightness.

⁹And Jehovah is a tower for the bruised, A tower for times of adversity.

¹⁰They trust in Thee who do know Thy name, For Thou hast not forsaken Those seeking Thee, O Jehovah.

¹¹Sing ye praise to Jehovah, inhabiting Zion, Declare ye among the peoples His acts,

¹²For He who is seeking for blood Them hath remembered, He hath not forgotten the cry of the afflicted.

¹³Favour me, O Jehovah, See mine affliction by those hating me, Thou who liftest me up from the gates of death,

¹⁴So that I recount all Thy praise, In the gates of the daughter of Zion. I rejoice on Thy salvation.

¹⁵Sunk have nations in a pit they made, In a net that they hid hath their foot been captured.

¹⁶Jehovah hath been known, Judgment He hath done, By a work of his hands Hath the wicked been snared. Meditation. Selah.

¹⁷The wicked do turn back to Sheol, All nations forgetting God.

¹⁸For not for ever is the needy forgotten, The hope of the humble lost to the age.

¹⁹Rise, O Jehovah, let not man be strong, Let nations be judged before Thy face.

²⁰Appoint, O Jehovah, a director to them, Let nations know they are men! Selah.

Psalm 10