Psalm 6:1-9:7

English Standard Version

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

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

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

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

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

⁸ The Lord ^(AD)judges the peoples;
    ^(AE)judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness
    and according to the integrity that is in me.
⁹ Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end,
    and may you establish the righteous—
you who ^(AF)test ^(AG)the minds and hearts,^[d]
    O righteous God!
¹⁰ My shield is ^(AH)with God,
    who saves ^(AI)the upright in heart.
¹¹ God is ^(AJ)a righteous judge,
    and a God who feels ^(AK)indignation every day.

¹² If a man^[e] does not repent, God^[f] will ^(AL)whet his sword;
    he has ^(AM)bent and ^(AN)readied his bow;
¹³ he has prepared for him his deadly weapons,
    making his ^(AO)arrows ^(AP)fiery shafts.
¹⁴ Behold, the wicked man ^(AQ)conceives evil
    and is ^(AR)pregnant with mischief
    and gives birth to lies.
¹⁵ He makes ^(AS)a pit, digging it out,
    and falls into the hole that he has made.
¹⁶ His ^(AT)mischief returns upon his own head,
    and on his own skull his violence descends.

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

³ When I ^(BB)look at your heavens, the work of your ^(BC)fingers,
    the moon and the stars, ^(BD)which you have set in place,
^4 (BE)what is man that you are ^(BF)mindful of him,
    and ^(BG)the son of man that you ^(BH)care for him?

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

⁹ O Lord, our Lord,
    how majestic is your name in all the earth!

³ When my enemies turn back,
    they stumble and perish before^[k] your presence.
⁴ For you have ^(BQ)maintained my just cause;
    you have ^(BR)sat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.

⁵ You have ^(BS)rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish;
    you have ^(BT)blotted out their name forever and ever.
⁶ The enemy came to an end in everlasting ruins;
    their cities you rooted out;
    the very memory of them has perished.

⁷ But the Lord sits enthroned forever;
    he has established his throne for justice,