Psalm 43

Christian Standard Bible

Psalm 43^[a]

¹Vindicate me, God, and champion my cause
against an unfaithful nation;
rescue me from the deceitful and unjust person.^(A)
²For you are the God of my refuge.
Why have you rejected me?
Why must I go about in sorrow
because of the enemy’s oppression?^(B)

³Send your light and your truth; let them lead me.^(C)
Let them bring me to your holy mountain,
to your dwelling place.^(D)
⁴Then I will come to the altar of God,
to God, my greatest joy.^(E)
I will praise you with the lyre,
God, my God.^(F)

⁵Why, my soul, are you so dejected?
Why are you in such turmoil?
Put your hope in God, for I will still praise him,
my Savior and my God.^(G)

Footnotes

43:0 Many Hb mss connect Pss 42 and 43

Psalm 5

Christian Standard Bible

Psalm 5

The Refuge of the Righteous

For the choir director: with the flutes. A psalm of David.

¹Listen to my words, Lord;
consider my sighing.^(A)
²Pay attention to the sound of my cry,^(B)
my King and my God,^(C)
for I pray to you.

³In the morning,^(D) Lord, you hear my voice;
in the morning I plead my case to you^(E) and watch expectantly.

⁴For you are not a God who delights in wickedness;
evil cannot dwell with you.^(F)
⁵The boastful cannot stand in your sight;^(G)
you hate all evildoers.^(H)
⁶You destroy those who tell lies;^(I)
the Lord abhors violent and treacherous people.^(J)

⁷But I enter your house
by the abundance of your faithful love;^(K)
I bow down toward your holy temple
in reverential awe of you.^(L)
⁸Lord, lead me in your righteousness^(M)
because of my adversaries;
make your way straight before me.^(N)

⁹For there is nothing reliable in what they say;^(O)
destruction is within them;
their throat is an open grave;
they flatter with their tongues.^(P)
¹⁰Punish them, God;
let them fall by their own schemes.^(Q)
Drive them out^(R) because of their many crimes,
for they rebel against you.^(S)

¹¹But let all who take refuge in you rejoice;^(T)
let them shout for joy forever.
May you shelter them,^(U)
and may those who love your name boast about you.^(V)
¹²For you, Lord, bless the righteous one;
you surround him with favor like a shield.^(W)

Psalm 8

Christian Standard Bible

Psalm 8

God’s Glory, Human Dignity

For the choir director: on the Gittith.^(A) A psalm of David.

¹Lord, our Lord,
how magnificent is your name throughout the earth!^(B)
You have covered the heavens with your majesty.^[a]^(C)
²From the mouths of infants and nursing babies,^(D)
you have established a stronghold^[b]
on account of your adversaries
in order to silence the enemy and the avenger.

³When I observe your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you set in place,^(E)
⁴what is a human being that you remember him,
a son of man^[c] that you look after him?^(F)
⁵You made him little less than God^[d]^[e]
and crowned him with glory and honor.
⁶You made him ruler over the works of your hands;
you put everything under his feet:^(G)
⁷all the sheep and oxen,
as well as the animals in the wild,
⁸the birds of the sky,
and the fish of the sea
that pass through the currents of the seas.^(H)

⁹Lord, our Lord,
how magnificent is your name throughout the earth!

Footnotes

8:1 Lit earth, which has set your splendor upon the heavens
8:2 LXX reads established praise
8:4 Or a mere mortal
8:5 LXX reads angels
8:5 Or heavenly beings; Hb Elohim

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