Psalm 5-8

English Standard Version

Lead Me in Your Righteousness

To the choirmaster: for the flutes. A Psalm of David.

5 Give ear to my words, O Lord;
    consider my ^(A)groaning.
²Give attention to the sound of my cry,
    my ^(B)King and my God,
    for ^(C)to you do I pray.
³O Lord, in ^(D)the morning you hear my voice;
    in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you^[a] and ^(E)watch.

⁴For you are not a God who delights in wickedness;
    evil may not dwell with you.
⁵The ^(F)boastful shall not ^(G)stand before your eyes;
    you ^(H)hate all evildoers.
⁶You destroy those who speak ^(I)lies;
    the Lord abhors ^(J)the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

⁷But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love,
    will enter your house.
I will ^(K)bow down ^(L)toward your ^(M)holy temple
    in the fear of you.
⁸^(N)Lead me, O Lord, in your righteousness
    because of my enemies;
    ^(O)make your way straight before me.

⁹For there is no truth in their mouth;
    their inmost self is ^(P)destruction;
^(Q)their throat is ^(R)an open grave;
    they ^(S)flatter with their tongue.
¹⁰^(T)Make them bear their guilt, O God;
    let them ^(U)fall by their own counsels;
because of the abundance of their transgressions cast them out,
    for they have rebelled against you.

¹¹But let all who ^(V)take refuge in you ^(W)rejoice;
    let them ever sing for joy,
and spread your protection over them,
    that those who love your name may ^(X)exult in you.
¹²For you ^(Y)bless the righteous, O Lord;
    you ^(Z)cover him with favor as with ^(AA)a shield.

O Lord, Deliver My Life

To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments; according to ^(AB)The Sheminith.^[b] A Psalm of David.

6 O Lord, ^(AC)rebuke me not in your anger,
    nor ^(AD)discipline me in your wrath.
²Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing;
    ^(AE)heal me, O Lord, ^(AF)for my bones are troubled.
³My ^(AG)soul also is greatly troubled.
    But you, O Lord—^(AH)how long?

⁴Turn, O Lord, deliver my life;
save me for the sake of your steadfast love.
⁵For in ^(AI)death there is no remembrance of you;
in Sheol who will give you praise?

⁶I am ^(AJ)weary with my ^(AK)moaning;
    every night I flood my bed with tears;
    I drench my couch with my weeping.
⁷My ^(AL)eye wastes away because of grief;
    it grows weak because of all my foes.

⁸^(AM)Depart from me, all you ^(AN)workers of evil,
    for the Lord ^(AO)has heard the sound of my weeping.
⁹The Lord has heard my ^(AP)plea;
    the Lord accepts my prayer.
¹⁰All my enemies shall be ashamed and greatly troubled;
    they shall ^(AQ)turn back and be put to shame in a moment.

In You Do I Take Refuge

A ^(AR)Shiggaion^[c] of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite.

7 O Lord my God, in you do I ^(AS)take refuge;
^(AT)save me from all my pursuers and deliver me,
²lest like ^(AU)a lion they tear my soul apart,
rending it in pieces, with ^(AV)none to deliver.

³O Lord my God, ^(AW)if I have done this,
    if there is ^(AX)wrong in my hands,
⁴if I have repaid ^(AY)my friend^[d] with evil
    or ^(AZ)plundered my enemy without cause,
⁵let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it,
    and let him ^(BA)trample my life to the ground
    and lay my glory in the dust. Selah

⁶^(BB)Arise, O Lord, in your anger;
    ^(BC)lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;
    ^(BD)awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.
⁷Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you;
    over it return on high.

⁸The Lord ^(BE)judges the peoples;
    ^(BF)judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness
    and according to the integrity that is in me.
⁹Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end,
    and may you establish the righteous—
you who ^(BG)test ^(BH)the minds and hearts,^[e]
    O righteous God!
¹⁰My shield is ^(BI)with God,
    who saves ^(BJ)the upright in heart.
¹¹God is ^(BK)a righteous judge,
    and a God who feels ^(BL)indignation every day.

¹²If a man^[f] does not repent, God^[g] will ^(BM)whet his sword;
    he has ^(BN)bent and ^(BO)readied his bow;
¹³he has prepared for him his deadly weapons,
    making his ^(BP)arrows ^(BQ)fiery shafts.
¹⁴Behold, the wicked man ^(BR)conceives evil
    and is ^(BS)pregnant with mischief
    and gives birth to lies.
¹⁵He makes ^(BT)a pit, digging it out,
    and falls into the hole that he has made.
¹⁶His ^(BU)mischief returns upon his own head,
    and on his own skull his violence descends.

¹⁷I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness,
and I will ^(BV)sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.

How Majestic Is Your Name

To the choirmaster: according to The ^(BW)Gittith.^[h] A Psalm of David.

8 O Lord, our Lord,
    how majestic is your ^(BX)name in all the earth!
You have set your ^(BY)glory above the heavens.
²    ^(BZ)Out of the mouth of babies and infants,
you have established ^(CA)strength because of your foes,
    to still ^(CB)the enemy and the avenger.

³When I ^(CC)look at your heavens, the work of your ^(CD)fingers,
the moon and the stars, ^(CE)which you have set in place,
⁴^(CF)what is man that you are ^(CG)mindful of him,
and ^(CH)the son of man that you ^(CI)care for him?

⁵Yet you have made him a little lower than ^(CJ)the heavenly beings^[i]
    and crowned him with ^(CK)glory and honor.
⁶You have given him ^(CL)dominion over the works of your hands;
    ^(CM)you have put all things under his feet,
⁷all sheep and oxen,
    and also the beasts of the field,
⁸the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,
    whatever passes along the paths of the seas.