Psalm 5-7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

⁴ For you are not a God who delights in wickedness;
    evil will not sojourn with you.^(D)
5 The boastful will not stand before your eyes;
    you hate all evildoers.^(E)
6 You destroy those who speak lies;
    the Lord abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful.^(F)

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

⁹ For there is no truth in their mouths;
    their hearts are destruction;
their throats are open graves;
    they flatter with their tongues.^(I)
10 Make them bear their guilt, O God;
    let them fall by their own counsels;
because of their many transgressions, cast them out,
    for they have rebelled against you.^(J)

¹¹ But let all who take refuge in you rejoice;
    let them ever sing for joy.
Spread your protection over them,
    so that those who love your name may exult in you.^(K)
12 For you bless the righteous, O Lord;
    you cover them with favor as with a shield.^(L)

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

⁶ I am weary with my moaning;
    every night I flood my bed with tears;
    I drench my couch with my weeping.
⁷ My eyes waste away because of grief;
    they grow weak because of all my foes.^(Q)

⁸ Depart from me, all you workers of evil,
    for the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping.^(R)
9 The Lord has heard my supplication;
    the Lord accepts my prayer.^(S)
10 All my enemies shall be ashamed and struck with terror;
    they shall turn back and in a moment be put to shame.

³ O Lord my God, if I have done this,
    if there is wrong in my hands,^(V)
4 if I have repaid my ally with harm
    or plundered my foe without cause,^(W)
5 then let the enemy pursue and overtake me,
    trample my life to the ground,
    and lay my soul in the dust. Selah

⁶ Rise up, O Lord, in your anger;
    lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;
    awake, O my God;^[a] you have appointed a judgment.^(X)
7 Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered around you,
    and over it take your seat^[b] on high.^(Y)
8 The Lord judges the peoples;
    judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness
    and according to the integrity that is in me.^(Z)

⁹ O let the evil of the wicked come to an end,
    but establish the righteous,
you who test the minds and hearts,
    O righteous God.^(AA)
10 God is my shield,
    who saves the upright in heart.^(AB)
11 God is a righteous judge
    and a God who has indignation every day.^(AC)

¹² If one does not repent, God^[c] will whet his sword;
    he has bent and strung his bow;^(AD)
13 he has prepared his deadly weapons,
    making his arrows fiery shafts.^(AE)
14 See how they conceive evil
    and are pregnant with mischief
    and bring forth lies.^(AF)
15 They make a pit, digging it out,
    and fall into the hole that they have made.^(AG)
16 Their mischief returns upon their own heads,
    and on their own heads their violence descends.^(AH)

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