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⁵If I have requited him that did evil unto me,

Or spoiled mine adversary unto emptiness;

⁶Let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it,

And tread my life down to the earth;

Yea, let him lay my glory in the dust. Selah

 

⁷Arise, O Lord, in Thine anger,

Lift up Thyself in indignation against mine adversaries;

Yea, awake for me at the judgment which Thou hast commanded.

⁸And let the congregation of the peoples compass Thee about,

And over them return Thou on high.

 

⁹O Lord, who ministerest judgment to the peoples,

Judge me, O Lord,

According to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.

¹⁰Oh that a full measure of evil might come upon the wicked,

And that Thou wouldest establish the righteous;

For the righteous God trieth the heart and reins.

¹¹My shield is with God,

Who saveth the upright in heart.

¹²God is a righteous judge,

Yea, a God that hath indignation every day:

¹³If a man turn not, He will whet His sword,

He hath bent His bow, and made it ready;

¹⁴He hath also prepared for him the weapons of death,

Yea, His arrows which He made sharp.

¹⁵Behold, he travaileth with iniquity;

Yea, he conceiveth mischief, and bringeth forth falsehood.

¹⁶He hath digged a pit, and hollowed it,

And is fallen into the ditch which he made.

¹⁷His mischief shall return upon his own head,

And his violence shall come down upon his own pate.

 

¹⁸I will give thanks unto the Lord according to His righteousness;

And will sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High.

8 For the Leader; upon the Gittith. A Psalm of David.

²O Lord, our Lord,

How glorious is Thy name in all the earth!

Whose majesty is rehearsed above the heavens.

³Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast Thou founded strength,

Because of Thine adversaries;

That Thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

 

⁴When I behold Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers,

The moon and the stars, which Thou hast established;

⁵What is man, that Thou art mindful of him?

And the son of man, that Thou thinkest of him?

⁶Yet Thou hast made him but little lower than the angels,

And hast crowned him with glory and honour.

⁷Thou hast made him to have dominion over the works of Thy hands;

Thou hast put all things under His feet:

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