Psalm 6-8

New International Version

⁴ Turn,^(H) Lord, and deliver me;
    save me because of your unfailing love.^(I)
5 Among the dead no one proclaims your name.
    Who praises you from the grave?^(J)

⁶ I am worn out^(K) from my groaning.^(L)

All night long I flood my bed with weeping^(M)
    and drench my couch with tears.^(N)
7 My eyes grow weak^(O) with sorrow;
    they fail because of all my foes.

⁸ Away from me,^(P) all you who do evil,^(Q)
    for the Lord has heard my weeping.
⁹ The Lord has heard my cry for mercy;^(R)
    the Lord accepts my prayer.
¹⁰ All my enemies will be overwhelmed with shame and anguish;^(S)
    they will turn back and suddenly be put to shame.^(T)

³ Lord my God, if I have done this
    and there is guilt on my hands^(AA)—
⁴ if I have repaid my ally with evil
    or without cause^(AB) have robbed my foe—
⁵ then let my enemy pursue and overtake^(AC) me;
    let him trample my life to the ground^(AD)
    and make me sleep in the dust.^[e](AE)

⁶ Arise,^(AF) Lord, in your anger;
    rise up against the rage of my enemies.^(AG)
    Awake,^(AH) my God; decree justice.
⁷ Let the assembled peoples gather around you,
    while you sit enthroned over them on high.^(AI)
8     Let the Lord judge^(AJ) the peoples.
Vindicate me, Lord, according to my righteousness,^(AK)
    according to my integrity,^(AL) O Most High.^(AM)
9 Bring to an end the violence of the wicked
    and make the righteous secure—^(AN)
you, the righteous God^(AO)
    who probes minds and hearts.^(AP)

¹⁰ My shield^[f](AQ) is God Most High,
    who saves the upright in heart.^(AR)
11 God is a righteous judge,^(AS)
    a God who displays his wrath^(AT) every day.
¹² If he does not relent,^(AU)
    he^[g] will sharpen his sword;^(AV)
    he will bend and string his bow.^(AW)
13 He has prepared his deadly weapons;
    he makes ready his flaming arrows.^(AX)

¹⁴ Whoever is pregnant with evil
    conceives trouble and gives birth^(AY) to disillusionment.
¹⁵ Whoever digs a hole and scoops it out
    falls into the pit^(AZ) they have made.^(BA)
16 The trouble they cause recoils on them;
    their violence comes down on their own heads.

¹⁷ I will give thanks to the Lord because of his righteousness;^(BB)
    I will sing the praises^(BC) of the name of the Lord Most High.^(BD)

You have set your glory^(BF)
    in the heavens.^(BG)
2 Through the praise of children and infants
    you have established a stronghold^(BH) against your enemies,
    to silence the foe^(BI) and the avenger.
³ When I consider your heavens,^(BJ)
    the work of your fingers,^(BK)
the moon and the stars,^(BL)
    which you have set in place,
⁴ what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
    human beings that you care for them?^[j](BM)

⁵ You have made them^[k] a little lower than the angels^[l](BN)
    and crowned them^[m] with glory and honor.^(BO)
6 You made them rulers^(BP) over the works of your hands;^(BQ)
    you put everything under their^[n] feet:^(BR)
7 all flocks and herds,^(BS)
    and the animals of the wild,^(BT)
8 the birds in the sky,
    and the fish in the sea,^(BU)
    all that swim the paths of the seas.

⁹ Lord, our Lord,
    how majestic is your name in all the earth!^(BV)