Psalm 6-10

American Standard Version

6 O Jehovah, rebuke me not in thine anger,
Neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
² Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah; for I am withered away:
O Jehovah, heal me; for my bones are troubled.
³ My soul also is sore troubled:
And thou, O Jehovah, how long?
⁴ Return, O Jehovah, deliver my soul:
Save me for thy lovingkindness’ sake.
⁵ For in death there is no remembrance of thee:
In Sheol who shall give thee thanks?
⁶ I am weary with my groaning;
Every night make I my bed to swim;
I water my couch with my tears.
⁷ Mine eye wasteth away because of grief;
It waxeth old because of all mine adversaries.
⁸ Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity;
For Jehovah hath heard the voice of my weeping.
⁹ Jehovah hath heard my supplication;
Jehovah will receive my prayer.
¹⁰ All mine enemies shall be put to shame and sore troubled:
They shall turn back, they shall be put to shame suddenly.

7 O Jehovah my God, in thee do I take refuge:
Save me from all them that pursue me, and deliver me,
² Lest they tear my soul like a lion,
Rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
³ O Jehovah my God, if I have done this;
If there be iniquity in my hands;
⁴ If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me
(Yea, I have delivered him that without cause was mine adversary;)
⁵ Let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it;
Yea, let him tread my life down to the earth,
And lay my glory in the dust. Selah
⁶ Arise, O Jehovah, in thine anger;
Lift up thyself against the rage of mine adversaries,
And awake for me; thou hast commanded judgment.
^7 [b]And let the congregation of the peoples compass thee about;
And over them return thou on high.
⁸ Jehovah ministereth judgment to the peoples:
Judge me, O Jehovah, according to my righteousness, and to mine integrity ^[c]that is in me.
⁹ Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish thou the righteous:
For the righteous God trieth the minds and ^[d]hearts.
¹⁰ My shield is with God,
Who saveth the upright in heart.
¹¹ God is a righteous judge,
Yea, a God that hath indignation every day.
^12 [e]If a man turn not, he will whet his sword;
He hath bent his bow, and made it ready;
¹³ He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death;
He maketh his arrows fiery shafts.
¹⁴ Behold, he travaileth with iniquity;
Yea, he hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
¹⁵ He hath made a pit, and digged it,
And is fallen into the ditch which he made.
¹⁶ His mischief shall return upon his own head,
And his violence shall come down upon his own pate.
¹⁷ I will give thanks unto Jehovah according to his righteousness,
And will sing praise to the name of Jehovah Most High.

8 O Jehovah, our Lord, How excellent is thy name in all the earth,
Who hast set thy glory ^[f]upon the heavens!
² Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established strength,
Because of thine adversaries,
That thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
³ When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,
The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
⁴ What is man, that thou art mindful of him?
And the son of man, that thou visitest him?
⁵ For thou hast made him but little lower than ^[g]God,
And crownest him with glory and honor.
⁶ Thou makest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands;
Thou hast put all things under his feet:
⁷ All sheep and oxen,
Yea, and the beasts of the field,
⁸ The birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,
Whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
⁹ O Jehovah, our Lord,
How excellent is thy name in all the earth!

9 I will give thanks unto Jehovah with my whole heart;
I will show forth all thy marvellous works.
² I will be glad and exult in thee;
I will sing praise to thy name, O thou ^[h]Most High.
³ When mine enemies turn back,
They stumble and perish at thy presence.
⁴ For thou hast maintained my right and my cause;
Thou sittest in the throne judging righteously.
⁵ Thou hast rebuked the ^[i]nations, thou hast destroyed the wicked;
Thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.
^6 [j]The enemy are come to an end, they are desolate for ever;
^[k]And the cities which thou hast ^[l]overthrown,
The very remembrance of them is perished.
⁷ But Jehovah sitteth as king for ever:
He hath prepared his throne for judgment;
⁸ And he will judge the world in righteousness,
He will minister judgment to the ^[m]peoples in uprightness.
⁹ Jehovah also will be a high tower for the oppressed,
A high tower in times of trouble;
¹⁰ And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee;
For thou, Jehovah, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
¹¹ Sing praises to Jehovah, who dwelleth in Zion:
Declare among the ^[n]people his doings.
^12 [o]For he that maketh inquisition for blood remembereth them;
He forgetteth not the cry of the ^[p]poor.
¹³ Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah;
Behold my affliction which I suffer of them that hate me,
Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death;
¹⁴ That I may show forth all thy praise.
In the gates of the daughter of Zion
I will rejoice in thy ^[q]salvation.
¹⁵ The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made:
In the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
¹⁶ Jehovah hath made himself known, he hath executed judgment:
^[r]The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah
¹⁷ The wicked shall be turned back unto Sheol,
Even all the nations that forget God.
¹⁸ For the needy shall not alway be forgotten,
Nor the expectation of the ^[s]poor perish for ever.
¹⁹ Arise, O Jehovah; let not man prevail:
Let the nations be judged in thy sight.
²⁰ Put them in fear, O Jehovah:
Let the nations know themselves to be but men. Selah

10 Why standest thou afar off, O Jehovah?
Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
² In the pride of the wicked ^[t]the poor ^[u]is hotly pursued;
^[v]Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.
³ For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire,
And ^[w]the covetous renounceth, yea, ^[x]contemneth Jehovah.
⁴ The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, saith, He will not require it.
All his thoughts are, There is no God.
⁵ His ways are ^[y]firm at all times;
Thy judgments are far above out of his sight:
As for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.
⁶ He saith in his heart, I shall not be moved;
To all generations I shall not be in adversity.
⁷ His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and ^[z]oppression:
Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
⁸ He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages;
In the secret places doth he murder the innocent;
His eyes are privily set against the ^[aa]helpless.
⁹ He lurketh in secret as a lion in his covert;
He lieth in wait to catch the poor:
He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net.
^10 [ab]He croucheth, he boweth down,
And the ^[ac]helpless fall by his strong ones.
¹¹ He saith in his heart: God hath forgotten;
He hideth his face, he will never see it.
¹² Arise, O Jehovah; O God, lift up thy hand:
Forget not the ^[ad]poor.
¹³ Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God,
And say in his heart, Thou wilt not require it?
¹⁴ Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest ^[ae]mischief and spite, ^[af]to requite it with thy hand:
The ^[ag]helpless committeth himself unto thee;
Thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.
¹⁵ Break thou the arm of the wicked;
And as for the evil man, seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
¹⁶ Jehovah is King for ever and ever:
The ^[ah]nations are perished out of his land.
¹⁷ Jehovah, thou hast heard the desire of the meek:
Thou wilt ^[ai]prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear;
¹⁸ To judge the fatherless and the oppressed,
That man who is of the earth may be terrible no more.