Psalm 5:8-8:9

English Standard Version

⁹ For there is no truth in their mouth;
    their inmost self is ^(C)destruction;
^(D)their throat is ^(E)an open grave;
    they ^(F)flatter with their tongue.
^10 (G)Make them bear their guilt, O God;
    let them ^(H)fall by their own counsels;
because of the abundance of their transgressions cast them out,
    for they have rebelled against you.

¹¹ But let all who ^(I)take refuge in you ^(J)rejoice;
    let them ever sing for joy,
and spread your protection over them,
    that those who love your name may ^(K)exult in you.
¹² For you ^(L)bless the righteous, O Lord;
    you ^(M)cover him with favor as with ^(N)a shield.

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

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

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

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

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

⁸ The Lord ^(AR)judges the peoples;
    ^(AS)judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness
    and according to the integrity that is in me.
⁹ Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end,
    and may you establish the righteous—
you who ^(AT)test ^(AU)the minds and hearts,^[d]
    O righteous God!
¹⁰ My shield is ^(AV)with God,
    who saves ^(AW)the upright in heart.
¹¹ God is ^(AX)a righteous judge,
    and a God who feels ^(AY)indignation every day.

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

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

³ When I ^(BP)look at your heavens, the work of your ^(BQ)fingers,
    the moon and the stars, ^(BR)which you have set in place,
^4 (BS)what is man that you are ^(BT)mindful of him,
    and ^(BU)the son of man that you ^(BV)care for him?

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

⁹ O Lord, our Lord,
    how majestic is your name in all the earth!