Psalm 6-8

English Standard Version

O Lord, Deliver My Life

To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments; according to ^(A)The Sheminith.^[a] A Psalm of David.

6 O Lord, ^(B)rebuke me not in your anger,
    nor ^(C)discipline me in your wrath.
²Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing;
    ^(D)heal me, O Lord, ^(E)for my bones are troubled.
³My ^(F)soul also is greatly troubled.
    But you, O Lord—^(G)how long?

⁴Turn, O Lord, deliver my life;
save me for the sake of your steadfast love.
⁵For in ^(H)death there is no remembrance of you;
in Sheol who will give you praise?

⁶I am ^(I)weary with my ^(J)moaning;
    every night I flood my bed with tears;
    I drench my couch with my weeping.
⁷My ^(K)eye wastes away because of grief;
    it grows weak because of all my foes.

⁸^(L)Depart from me, all you ^(M)workers of evil,
    for the Lord ^(N)has heard the sound of my weeping.
⁹The Lord has heard my ^(O)plea;
    the Lord accepts my prayer.
¹⁰All my enemies shall be ashamed and greatly troubled;
    they shall ^(P)turn back and be put to shame in a moment.

In You Do I Take Refuge

A ^(Q)Shiggaion^[b] of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite.

7 O Lord my God, in you do I ^(R)take refuge;
^(S)save me from all my pursuers and deliver me,
²lest like ^(T)a lion they tear my soul apart,
rending it in pieces, with ^(U)none to deliver.

³O Lord my God, ^(V)if I have done this,
    if there is ^(W)wrong in my hands,
⁴if I have repaid ^(X)my friend^[c] with evil
    or ^(Y)plundered my enemy without cause,
⁵let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it,
    and let him ^(Z)trample my life to the ground
    and lay my glory in the dust. Selah

⁶^(AA)Arise, O Lord, in your anger;
    ^(AB)lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;
    ^(AC)awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.
⁷Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you;
    over it return on high.

⁸The Lord ^(AD)judges the peoples;
    ^(AE)judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness
    and according to the integrity that is in me.
⁹Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end,
    and may you establish the righteous—
you who ^(AF)test ^(AG)the minds and hearts,^[d]
    O righteous God!
¹⁰My shield is ^(AH)with God,
    who saves ^(AI)the upright in heart.
¹¹God is ^(AJ)a righteous judge,
    and a God who feels ^(AK)indignation every day.

¹²If a man^[e] does not repent, God^[f] will ^(AL)whet his sword;
    he has ^(AM)bent and ^(AN)readied his bow;
¹³he has prepared for him his deadly weapons,
    making his ^(AO)arrows ^(AP)fiery shafts.
¹⁴Behold, the wicked man ^(AQ)conceives evil
    and is ^(AR)pregnant with mischief
    and gives birth to lies.
¹⁵He makes ^(AS)a pit, digging it out,
    and falls into the hole that he has made.
¹⁶His ^(AT)mischief returns upon his own head,
    and on his own skull his violence descends.

¹⁷I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness,
and I will ^(AU)sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.

How Majestic Is Your Name

To the choirmaster: according to The ^(AV)Gittith.^[g] A Psalm of David.

8 O Lord, our Lord,
    how majestic is your ^(AW)name in all the earth!
You have set your ^(AX)glory above the heavens.
²    ^(AY)Out of the mouth of babies and infants,
you have established ^(AZ)strength because of your foes,
    to still ^(BA)the enemy and the avenger.

³When I ^(BB)look at your heavens, the work of your ^(BC)fingers,
the moon and the stars, ^(BD)which you have set in place,
⁴^(BE)what is man that you are ^(BF)mindful of him,
and ^(BG)the son of man that you ^(BH)care for him?

⁵Yet you have made him a little lower than ^(BI)the heavenly beings^[h]
    and crowned him with ^(BJ)glory and honor.
⁶You have given him ^(BK)dominion over the works of your hands;
    ^(BL)you have put all things under his feet,
⁷all sheep and oxen,
    and also the beasts of the field,
⁸the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,
    whatever passes along the paths of the seas.