Psalms 7

• 1. O LORD my God, I take refuge in you; save and deliver me from all who pursue me,
• 2. or they will tear me like a lion and rip me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
• 3. O LORD my God, if I have done this and there is guilt on my hands-
• 4. if I have done evil to him who is at peace with me or without cause have robbed my foe-
• 5. then let my enemy pursue and overtake me; let him trample my life to the ground and make me sleep in the dust. Selah
• 6. Arise, O LORD, in your anger; rise up against the rage of my enemies. Awake, my God; decree justice.
• 7. Let the assembled peoples gather around you. Rule over them from on high;
• 8. let the LORD judge the peoples. Judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, according to my integrity, O Most High.
• 9. O righteous God, who searches minds and hearts, bring to an end the violence of the wicked and make the righteous secure.
• 10. My shield is God Most High, who saves the upright in heart.
• 11. God is a righteous judge, a God who expresses his wrath every day.
• 12. If he does not relent, he will sharpen his sword; he will bend and string his bow.
• 13. He has prepared his deadly weapons; he makes ready his flaming arrows.
• 14. He who is pregnant with evil and conceives trouble gives birth to disillusionment.
• 15. He who digs a hole and scoops it out falls into the pit he has made.
• 16. The trouble he causes recoils on himself; his violence comes down on his own head.
• 17. I will give thanks to the LORD because of his righteousness and will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.

Psalms 8

• 1. O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.
• 2. From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise because of your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.
• 3. When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
• 4. what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?
• 5. You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.
• 6. You made him ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet:
• 7. all flocks and herds, and the beasts of the field,
• 8. the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.
• 9. O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Psalms 9

• 1. I will praise you, O LORD, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonders.
• 2. I will be glad and rejoice in you; I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.
• 3. My enemies turn back; they stumble and perish before you.
• 4. For you have upheld my right and my cause; you have sat on your throne, judging righteously.
• 5. You have rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked; you have blotted out their name for ever and ever.
• 6. Endless ruin has overtaken the enemy, you have uprooted their cities; even the memory of them has perished.
• 7. The LORD reigns forever; he has established his throne for judgment.
• 8. He will judge the world in righteousness; he will govern the peoples with justice.
• 9. The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
• 10. Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek you.
• 11. Sing praises to the LORD, enthroned in Zion; proclaim among the nations what he has done.
• 12. For he who avenges blood remembers; he does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.
• 13. O LORD, see how my enemies persecute me! Have mercy and lift me up from the gates of death,
• 14. that I may declare your praises in the gates of the Daughter of Zion and there rejoice in your salvation.
• 15. The nations have fallen into the pit they have dug; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.
• 16. The LORD is known by his justice; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. Higgaion. Selah
• 17. The wicked return to the grave, all the nations that forget God.
• 18. But the needy will not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the afflicted ever perish.
• 19. Arise, O LORD, let not man triumph; let the nations be judged in your presence.
• 20. Strike them with terror, O LORD; let the nations know they are but men. Selah

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