Psalm 7-12

New King James Version

³ O Lord my God, ^(F)if I have done this:
If there is ^(G)iniquity in my hands,
⁴ If I have repaid evil to him who was at peace with me,
Or ^(H)have plundered my enemy without cause,
⁵ Let the enemy pursue me and overtake me;
Yes, let him trample my life to the earth,
And lay my honor in the dust. Selah

⁶ Arise, O Lord, in Your anger;
^(I)Lift Yourself up because of the rage of my enemies;
^(J)Rise up ^[b]for me to the judgment You have commanded!
⁷ So the congregation of the peoples shall surround You;
For their sakes, therefore, return on high.
⁸ The Lord shall judge the peoples;
^(K)Judge me, O Lord, ^(L)according to my righteousness,
And according to my integrity within me.

⁹ Oh, let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end,
But establish the just;
^(M)For the righteous God tests the hearts and ^[c]minds.
^10 [d]My defense is of God,
Who saves the ^(N)upright in heart.

¹¹ God is a just judge,
And God is angry with the wicked every day.
¹² If he does not turn back,
He will ^(O)sharpen His sword;
He bends His bow and makes it ready.
¹³ He also prepares for Himself instruments of death;
He makes His arrows into fiery shafts.

^14 (P)Behold, the wicked brings forth iniquity;
Yes, he conceives trouble and brings forth falsehood.
¹⁵ He made a pit and dug it out,
^(Q)And has fallen into the ditch which he made.
^16 (R)His trouble shall return upon his own head,
And his violent dealing shall come down on ^[e]his own crown.

¹⁷ I will praise the Lord according to His righteousness,
And will sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High.

^2 (U)Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants
You have ^[g]ordained strength,
Because of Your enemies,
That You may silence ^(V)the enemy and the avenger.

³ When I ^(W)consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,
^4 (X)What is man that You are mindful of him,
And the son of man that You ^(Y)visit^[h] him?
⁵ For You have made him a little lower than ^[i]the angels,
And You have crowned him with glory and honor.

^6 (Z)You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands;
^(AA)You have put all things under his feet,
⁷ All sheep and oxen—
Even the beasts of the field,
⁸ The birds of the air,
And the fish of the sea
That pass through the paths of the seas.

^9 (AB)O Lord, our Lord,
How excellent is Your name in all the earth!

³ When my enemies turn back,
They shall fall and perish at Your presence.
⁴ For You have maintained my right and my cause;
You sat on the throne judging in righteousness.
⁵ You have rebuked the ^[k]nations,
You have destroyed the wicked;
You have ^(AE)blotted out their name forever and ever.

⁶ O enemy, destructions are finished forever!
And you have destroyed cities;
Even their memory has ^(AF)perished.
^7 (AG)But the Lord shall endure forever;
He has prepared His throne for judgment.
^8 (AH)He shall judge the world in righteousness,
And He shall administer judgment for the peoples in uprightness.

⁹ The Lord also will be a ^(AI)refuge^[l] for the oppressed,
A refuge in times of trouble.
¹⁰ And those who ^(AJ)know Your name will put their trust in You;
For You, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You.

¹¹ Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Zion!
^(AK)Declare His deeds among the people.
^12 (AL)When He avenges blood, He remembers them;
He does not forget the cry of the ^[m]humble.

¹³ Have mercy on me, O Lord!
Consider my trouble from those who hate me,
You who lift me up from the gates of death,
¹⁴ That I may tell of all Your praise
In the gates of ^[n]the daughter of Zion.
I will ^(AM)rejoice in Your salvation.

^15 (AN)The ^[o]nations have sunk down in the pit which they made;
In the net which they hid, their own foot is caught.
¹⁶ The Lord is ^(AO)known by the judgment He executes;
The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.
^(AP)Meditation.^[p] Selah

¹⁷ The wicked shall be turned into hell,
And all the ^[q]nations ^(AQ)that forget God.
^18 (AR)For the needy shall not always be forgotten;
^(AS)The expectation of the poor shall not perish forever.

¹⁹ Arise, O Lord,
Do not let man prevail;
Let the ^[r]nations be judged in Your sight.
²⁰ Put them in fear, O Lord,
That the ^[s]nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah

³ For the wicked ^(AU)boasts of his heart’s desire;
^[u]He ^(AV)blesses the greedy and renounces the Lord.
⁴ The wicked in his proud countenance does not seek God;
^[v]God is in none of his ^(AW)thoughts.

⁵ His ways ^[w]are always prospering;
Your judgments are far above, out of his sight;
As for all his enemies, he sneers at them.
^6 (AX)He has said in his heart, “I shall not be moved;
^(AY)I shall never be in adversity.”
^7 (AZ)His mouth is full of cursing and ^(BA)deceit and oppression;
Under his tongue is trouble and iniquity.

⁸ He sits in the lurking places of the villages;
In the secret places he murders the innocent;
His eyes are secretly fixed on the helpless.
⁹ He lies in wait secretly, as a lion in his den;
He lies in wait to catch the poor;
He catches the poor when he draws him into his net.
¹⁰ So ^[x]he crouches, he lies low,
That the helpless may fall by his ^[y]strength.
¹¹ He has said in his heart,
“God has forgotten;
He hides His face;
He will never see.”

¹² Arise, O Lord!
O God, ^(BB)lift up Your hand!
Do not forget the ^(BC)humble.
¹³ Why do the wicked renounce God?
He has said in his heart,
“You will not require an account.”

¹⁴ But You have ^(BD)seen, for You observe trouble and grief,
To repay it by Your hand.
The helpless ^(BE)commits^[z] himself to You;
^(BF)You are the helper of the fatherless.
¹⁵ Break the arm of the wicked and the evil man;
Seek out his wickedness until You find none.

^16 (BG)The Lord is King forever and ever;
The nations have perished out of His land.
¹⁷ Lord, You have heard the desire of the humble;
You will prepare their heart;
You will cause Your ear to hear,
¹⁸ To ^[aa]do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed,
That the man of the earth may ^[ab]oppress no more.

⁴ The Lord is in His holy temple,
The Lord’s ^(BK)throne is in heaven;
^(BL)His eyes behold,
His eyelids test the sons of men.
⁵ The Lord ^(BM)tests the righteous,
But the wicked and the one who loves violence His soul hates.
⁶ Upon the wicked He will rain coals;
Fire and brimstone and a burning wind
^(BN)Shall be ^[ad]the portion of their cup.

⁷ For the Lord is righteous,
He ^(BO)loves righteousness;
^[ae]His countenance beholds the upright.

³ May the Lord ^[ai]cut off all flattering lips,
And the tongue that speaks ^[aj]proud things,
⁴ Who have said,
“With our tongue we will prevail;
Our lips are our own;
Who is lord over us?”

⁵ “For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy,
Now I will arise,” says the Lord;
“I will set him in the safety for which he yearns.”

⁶ The words of the Lord are ^(BS)pure words,
Like silver tried in a furnace of earth,
Purified seven times.
⁷ You shall keep them, O Lord,
You shall preserve them from this generation forever.

⁸ The wicked prowl on every side,
When vileness is exalted among the sons of men.