judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to my integrity that is in me.
9 O let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
10 My defence is from God, who saveth the upright in heart. [1]
11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day. [2]
12 If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
15 He made a pit, and dug it, and hath fallen into the ditch which he made. [3]
16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon the crown of his head.
17 I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.
PSALM 8.
To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David.
O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thy enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. [4]
3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
6 Thou hast made him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; [5]
8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatever passeth through the paths of the seas.
9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
PSALM 9.
To the chief Musician upon Muthlabben, A Psalm of David.
I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will show forth all thy marvellous works.
2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.
3 When my enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.
4 For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest on the throne judging right. [6] [7]
5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
6 O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial hath perished with them. [8]
7 But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.
8 And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
9 The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. [9]
10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
11 Sing praises to the LORD, who dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.
12 When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble. [10]
13 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer from them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
14 That I may show forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.
15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
16 The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah. [11]
17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
19 Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
20 Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.
PSALM 10.
Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. [12]
3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth. [13] [14]
4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God : God is not in all his thoughts. [15]
5 His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
- ↑ My...: Heb. My buckler is upon God
- ↑ judgeth...: or, is a righteous judge
- ↑ He made a pit: Heb. He hath digged a pit
- ↑ ordained: Heb. founded
- ↑ All...: Heb. Flocks and oxen all of them
- ↑ maintained...: Heb. made my judgment
- ↑ judging right: Heb. judging in righteousness
- ↑ O thou...: or, The destructions of the enemy are come to a perpetual end: and their cities hast thou destroyed, etc
- ↑ a refuge: Heb. an high place
- ↑ humble: or, afflicted
- ↑ Higgaion: that is, Meditation
- ↑ The wicked...: Heb. In the pride of the wicked he doth persecute
- ↑ heart’s: Heb. soul’s
- ↑ blesseth...: or, the covetous blesseth himself, he abhorreth the LORD
- ↑ God is...: or, all his thoughts are, There is no God
