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PSALMS
- 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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