Psalm 5-9

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

⁷ But 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.

⁹ For 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.

¹¹ But 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.
¹² For you ^(Y)bless the righteous, O Lord;
    you ^(Z)cover him with favor as with ^(AA)a shield.

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

⁶ I am ^(AJ)weary with my ^(AK)moaning;
    every night I flood my bed with tears;
    I drench my couch with my weeping.
⁷ My ^(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.
⁹ The Lord has heard my ^(AP)plea;
    the Lord accepts my prayer.
¹⁰ All my enemies shall be ashamed and greatly troubled;
    they shall ^(AQ)turn back and be put to shame in a moment.

³ O Lord my God, ^(AW)if I have done this,
    if there is ^(AX)wrong in my hands,
⁴ if I have repaid ^(AY)my friend^[d] with evil
    or ^(AZ)plundered my enemy without cause,
⁵ let 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.
⁷ Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you;
    over it return on high.

⁸ The Lord ^(BE)judges the peoples;
    ^(BF)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 ^(BG)test ^(BH)the minds and hearts,^[e]
    O righteous God!
¹⁰ My shield is ^(BI)with God,
    who saves ^(BJ)the upright in heart.
¹¹ God is ^(BK)a righteous judge,
    and a God who feels ^(BL)indignation every day.

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

³ When 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?

⁵ Yet you have made him a little lower than ^(CJ)the heavenly beings^[i]
    and crowned him with ^(CK)glory and honor.
⁶ You have given him ^(CL)dominion over the works of your hands;
    ^(CM)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^[l] your presence.
⁴ For you have ^(CR)maintained my just cause;
    you have ^(CS)sat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.

⁵ You have ^(CT)rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish;
    you have ^(CU)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,
⁸ and he ^(CV)judges the world with righteousness;
    he ^(CW)judges the peoples with uprightness.

⁹ The Lord is ^(CX)a stronghold for ^(CY)the oppressed,
    a stronghold in ^(CZ)times of trouble.
¹⁰ And those who ^(DA)know your name put their trust in you,
    for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.

¹¹ Sing praises to the Lord, who ^(DB)sits enthroned in Zion!
    Tell among the peoples his ^(DC)deeds!
¹² For he who ^(DD)avenges blood is mindful of them;
    he ^(DE)does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

^13 (DF)Be gracious to me, O Lord!
    See my affliction from those who hate me,
    O you who lift me up from ^(DG)the gates of death,
¹⁴ that I may recount all your praises,
    that in the gates of ^(DH)the daughter of Zion
    I may ^(DI)rejoice in your salvation.

¹⁵ The nations have sunk in ^(DJ)the pit that they made;
    in ^(DK)the net that they hid, their own foot has been caught.
¹⁶ The Lord has made himself ^(DL)known; he has executed judgment;
    the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion.^[m] Selah

¹⁷ The wicked shall ^(DM)return to Sheol,
    all the nations that ^(DN)forget God.

¹⁸ For the needy shall not always be forgotten,
    and ^(DO)the hope of the poor shall not perish forever.

^19 (DP)Arise, O Lord! Let not ^(DQ)man prevail;
    let the nations be judged before you!
²⁰ Put them in fear, O Lord!
    Let the nations know that they are but ^(DR)men! Selah