Psalms 5-8

1Give ear to my words, O LORD; consider my groaning.

2Attend to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to You I pray.

3In the morning, O LORD, You hear my voice; at daybreak I lay my plea before You and wait in expectation.

4For You are not a God who delights in wickedness; no evil can dwell with You.

5The boastful cannot stand in Your presence; You hate all workers of iniquity.

6You destroy those who tell lies; the LORD abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.

7But I will enter Your house by the abundance of Your loving devotion; in reverence I will bow down toward Your holy temple.

8Lead me, O LORD, in Your righteousness because of my enemies; make straight Your way before me.

9For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.

10Declare them guilty, O God; let them fall by their own devices. Drive them out for their many transgressions, for they have rebelled against You.

11But let all who take refuge in You rejoice; let them ever shout for joy. May You shelter them, that those who love Your name may rejoice in You.

12For surely You, O LORD, bless the righteous; You surround them with the shield of Your favor.

1O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.

2Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am frail; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony.

3My soul is deeply distressed. How long, O LORD, how long?

4Turn, O LORD, and deliver my soul; save me because of Your loving devotion.

5For there is no mention of You in death; who can praise You from Sheol?

6I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.

7My eyes fail from grief; they grow dim because of all my foes.

8Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the LORD has heard my weeping.

9The LORD has heard my cry for mercy; the LORD accepts my prayer.

10All my enemies will be ashamed and dismayed; they will turn back in sudden disgrace.

1O LORD my God, I take refuge in You; save me and deliver me from all my pursuers,

2or they will shred my soul like a lion and tear me to pieces with no one to rescue me.

3O LORD my God, if I have done this, if injustice is on my hands,

4if I have rewarded my ally with evil, if I have plundered my foe without cause,

5then may my enemy pursue me and overtake me; may he trample me to the ground and leave my honor in the dust. Selah

6Arise, O LORD, in Your anger; rise up against the fury of my enemies. Awake, my God, and ordain judgment.

7Let the assembled peoples gather around You; take Your seat over them on high.

8The LORD judges the peoples; vindicate me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and integrity.

9Put an end to the evil of the wicked, but establish the righteous, O righteous God who searches hearts and minds.

10My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.

11God is a righteous judge and a God who feels indignation each day.

12If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.

13He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire.

14Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.

15He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.

16His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.

17I will thank the LORD for His righteousness and sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.

1O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! You have set Your glory above the heavens.

2From the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise on account of Your adversaries, to silence the enemy and avenger.

3When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—

4what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?

5You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor.

6You made him ruler of the works of Your hands; You have placed everything under his feet:

7all sheep and oxen, and even the beasts of the field,

8the birds of the air and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.

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