Psalm 5:11-9:2

11But let all who take refuge in you be glad; let them ever sing for joy. Spread your protection over them, that those who love your name may rejoice in you. 12Surely, LORD, you bless the righteous; you surround them with your favor as with a shield.

Psalm 6In Hebrew texts 6:1-10 is numbered 6:2-11. 1For the director of music. With stringed instruments. According to sheminith. Title: Probably a musical term A psalm of David. LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath.

2Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am faint; heal me, LORD, for my bones are in agony.

3My soul is in deep anguish. How long, LORD, how long?

4Turn, LORD, and deliver me; save me because of your unfailing love.

5Among the dead no one proclaims your name. Who praises you from the grave?

6I am worn out from my groaning. All night long I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.

7My eyes grow weak with sorrow; they fail because of all my foes.

8Away from me, all you who do evil, 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 overwhelmed with shame and anguish; they will turn back and suddenly be put to shame.

Psalm 7In Hebrew texts 7:1-17 is numbered 7:2-18. 1A shiggaion Title: Probably a literary or musical term of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning Cush, a Benjamite. LORD my God, I take refuge in you; save and deliver me from all who pursue me,

2or they will tear me apart like a lion and rip me to pieces with no one to rescue me.

3LORD my God, if I have done this and there is guilt on my hands—

4if I have repaid my ally with evil or without cause have robbed my foe—

5then let my enemy pursue and overtake me; let him trample my life to the ground and make me sleep in the dust. The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here.

6Arise, LORD, in your anger; rise up against the rage of my enemies. Awake, my God; decree justice.

7Let the assembled peoples gather around you, while you sit enthroned over them on high.

8Let the LORD judge the peoples. Vindicate me, LORD, according to my righteousness, according to my integrity, O Most High.

9Bring to an end the violence of the wicked and make the righteous secure— you, the righteous God who probes minds and hearts.

10My shield Or sovereign is God Most High, who saves the upright in heart.

11God is a righteous judge, a God who displays his wrath every day.

12If he does not relent, he Or If anyone does not repent, / God will sharpen his sword; he will bend and string his bow.

13He has prepared his deadly weapons; he makes ready his flaming arrows.

14Whoever is pregnant with evil conceives trouble and gives birth to disillusionment.

15Whoever digs a hole and scoops it out falls into the pit they have made.

16The trouble they cause recoils on them; their violence comes down on their own heads. 17I will give thanks to the LORD because of his righteousness; I will sing the praises of the name of the LORD Most High.

Psalm 8In Hebrew texts 8:1-9 is numbered 8:2-10. 1For the director of music. According to gittith. Title: Probably a musical term A psalm of David. LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens.

2Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.

3When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

4what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? Or what is a human being that you are mindful of him, / a son of man that you care for him?

5You have made them Or him a little lower than the angels Or than God and crowned them Or him with glory and honor.

6You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their Or made him ruler…; / …his feet:

7all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild,

8the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas. 9LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Psalm 9Psalms 9 and 10 may originally have been a single acrostic poem in which alternating lines began with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet. In the Septuagint they constitute one psalm.,In Hebrew texts 9:1-20 is numbered 9:2-21. 1For the director of music. To the tune of “The Death of the Son.” A psalm of David. I will give thanks to you, LORD, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.

2I will be glad and rejoice in you; I will sing the praises of your name, O Most High.