Psalm 6-10

New American Standard Bible 1995

⁴ Return, O Lord, ^(G)rescue my ^[b]soul;
Save me because of Your lovingkindness.
⁵ For ^(H)there is no ^[c]mention of You in death;
In ^[d]Sheol who will give You thanks?

⁶ I am ^(I)weary with my sighing;
Every night I make my bed swim,
I dissolve my couch with ^(J)my tears.
⁷ My ^(K)eye has wasted away with grief;
It has become old because of all my adversaries.

^8 (L)Depart from me, all you who do iniquity,
For the Lord ^(M)has heard the voice of my weeping.
⁹ The Lord ^(N)has heard my supplication,
The Lord ^(O)receives my prayer.
¹⁰ All my enemies will ^(P)be ashamed and greatly dismayed;
They shall ^[e]turn back, they will ^(Q)suddenly be ashamed.

³ O Lord my God, if I have done this,
If there is ^(U)injustice in my hands,
⁴ If I have ^(V)rewarded evil to ^[j]my friend,
Or have ^(W)plundered ^[k]him who without cause was my adversary,
⁵ Let the enemy pursue ^[l]my soul and overtake ^[m]it;
And let him trample my life down to the ground
And lay my glory in the dust. ^[n]Selah.

^6 (X)Arise, O Lord, in Your anger;
^(Y)Lift up Yourself against ^(Z)the rage of my adversaries,
And ^(AA)arouse Yourself ^[o]for me; You have appointed judgment.
⁷ Let the assembly of the ^(AB)peoples encompass You,
And over ^[p]them return on high.
⁸ The Lord ^(AC)judges the peoples;
^[q](AD)Vindicate me, O Lord, according to my righteousness and my integrity that is in me.
⁹ O let ^(AE)the evil of the wicked come to an end, but ^(AF)establish the righteous;
For the righteous God ^(AG)tries the hearts and ^[r]minds.
¹⁰ My ^(AH)shield is ^[s]with God,
Who ^(AI)saves the upright in heart.
¹¹ God is a ^(AJ)righteous judge,
And a God who has ^(AK)indignation every day.

¹² If ^[t]a man ^(AL)does not repent, He will ^(AM)sharpen His sword;
He has ^(AN)bent His bow and ^[u]made it ready.
¹³ He has also prepared ^[v]for Himself deadly weapons;
He makes His ^(AO)arrows fiery shafts.
¹⁴ Behold, he travails with wickedness,
And he ^(AP)conceives mischief and brings forth falsehood.
¹⁵ He has dug a pit and hollowed it out,
And has ^(AQ)fallen into the hole which he made.
¹⁶ His ^(AR)mischief will return upon his own head,
And his ^(AS)violence will descend upon ^[w]his own pate.

¹⁷ I will give thanks to the Lord ^(AT)according to His righteousness
And will ^(AU)sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High.

³ When I ^[z](AZ)consider ^(BA)Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The ^(BB)moon and the stars, which You have ^[aa]ordained;
^4 (BC)What is man that You ^[ab]take thought of him,
And the son of man that You care for him?
⁵ Yet You have made him a ^(BD)little lower than ^[ac]God,
And ^(BE)You crown him with ^(BF)glory and majesty!
⁶ You make him to ^(BG)rule over the works of Your hands;
You have ^(BH)put all things under his feet,
⁷ All sheep and oxen,
And also the ^[ad]beasts of the field,
⁸ The birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea,
Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

^9 (BI)O Lord, our Lord,
How majestic is Your name in all the earth!

³ When my enemies turn back,
They stumble and ^(BO)perish before You.
⁴ For You have ^(BP)maintained ^[ag]my just cause;
You have sat on the throne ^[ah](BQ)judging righteously.
⁵ You have ^(BR)rebuked the nations, You have destroyed the wicked;
You have ^(BS)blotted out their name forever and ever.
^6 [ai]The enemy has come to an end in perpetual ruins,
And You have uprooted the cities;
The very ^(BT)memory of them has perished.

⁷ But the ^(BU)Lord ^[aj]abides forever;
He has established His ^(BV)throne for judgment,
⁸ And He will ^(BW)judge the world in righteousness;
He will execute judgment for the peoples with equity.
^9 [ak]The Lord also will be a ^(BX)stronghold for the oppressed,
A stronghold in times of trouble;
¹⁰ And ^[al]those who ^(BY)know Your name will put their trust in You,
For You, O Lord, have not ^(BZ)forsaken those who seek You.

¹¹ Sing praises to the Lord, who ^(CA)dwells in Zion;
^(CB)Declare among the peoples His deeds.
¹² For ^(CC)He who ^[am]requires blood remembers them;
He does not forget ^(CD)the cry of the afflicted.
¹³ Be gracious to me, O Lord;
See my affliction from those ^(CE)who hate me,
You who ^(CF)lift me up from the gates of death,
¹⁴ That I may tell of ^(CG)all Your praises,
That in the gates of the daughter of Zion
I may ^(CH)rejoice in Your ^[an]salvation.
¹⁵ The nations have sunk down ^(CI)in the pit which they have made;
In the ^(CJ)net which they hid, their own foot has been caught.
¹⁶ The Lord has ^(CK)made Himself known;
He has ^(CL)executed judgment.
In the work of his own hands the wicked is snared. ^[ao]Higgaion ^[ap]Selah.

¹⁷ The wicked will ^[aq](CM)return to ^[ar]Sheol,
Even all the nations who ^(CN)forget God.
¹⁸ For the ^(CO)needy will not always be forgotten,
Nor the ^(CP)hope of the afflicted perish forever.
^19 (CQ)Arise, O Lord, do not let man prevail;
Let the nations be ^(CR)judged before You.
²⁰ Put them ^(CS)in fear, O Lord;
Let the nations know that they are ^(CT)but men. Selah.

³ For the wicked ^(CY)boasts of his ^(CZ)heart’s desire,
And ^[av]the greedy man curses and ^(DA)spurns the Lord.
⁴ The wicked, in the haughtiness of his countenance, ^(DB)does not seek Him.
All his ^[aw]thoughts are, “^(DC)There is no God.”

⁵ His ways ^[ax](DD)prosper at all times;
Your judgments are on high, ^(DE)out of his sight;
As for all his adversaries, he snorts at them.
⁶ He says to himself, “^(DF)I will not be moved;
^[ay]Throughout all generations ^(DG)I will not be in adversity.”
⁷ His ^(DH)mouth is full of curses and deceit and ^(DI)oppression;
^(DJ)Under his tongue is mischief and wickedness.
⁸ He sits in the ^(DK)lurking places of the villages;
In the hiding places he ^(DL)kills the innocent;
His eyes ^[az]stealthily watch for the ^[ba](DM)unfortunate.
⁹ He lurks in a hiding place as ^(DN)a lion in his ^[bb]lair;
He ^(DO)lurks to catch ^(DP)the afflicted;
He catches the afflicted when he draws him into his ^(DQ)net.
¹⁰ He ^[bc]crouches, he ^[bd]bows down,
And the ^[be]unfortunate fall ^[bf]by his mighty ones.
¹¹ He ^(DR)says to himself, “God has forgotten;
He has hidden His face; He will never see it.”

¹² Arise, O Lord; O God, ^(DS)lift up Your hand.
^(DT)Do not forget the afflicted.
¹³ Why has the wicked ^(DU)spurned God?
He has said to himself, “You will not require it.”
¹⁴ You have seen it, for You have beheld ^(DV)mischief and vexation to ^[bg]take it into Your hand.
The ^[bh](DW)unfortunate commits himself to You;
You have been the ^(DX)helper of the orphan.
^15 (DY)Break the arm of the wicked and the evildoer,
^[bi](DZ)Seek out his wickedness until You find none.

¹⁶ The Lord is ^(EA)King forever and ever;
^(EB)Nations have perished from His land.
¹⁷ O Lord, You have heard the ^(EC)desire of the ^[bj]humble;
You will ^(ED)strengthen their heart, ^(EE)You will incline Your ear
¹⁸ To ^[bk]vindicate the ^(EF)orphan and the ^(EG)oppressed,
So that man who is of the earth will no longer cause ^(EH)terror.