Psalms 7

In You Do I Take Refuge

A ^aShiggaion ▼

▼Probably a musical or liturgical term

of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite.

1 O Lord my God, in you do I ^ctake refuge;
^dsave me from all my pursuers and deliver me,
2lest like ^ea lion they tear my soul apart,
rending it in pieces, with ^fnone to deliver.
3 O Lord my God, ^gif I have done this,
if there is ^hwrong in my hands,
4if I have repaid ⁱmy friend ▼

▼Hebrew the one at peace with me

with evil
or ^kplundered my enemy without cause,
5let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it,
and let him ^ltrample my life to the ground
and lay my glory in the dust.  Selah
6 ^mArise, O Lord, in your anger;
ⁿlift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;
^oawake for me; you have appointed a judgment.
7Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you;
over it return on high.
8 The Lord ^pjudges the peoples;
^qjudge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness
and according to the integrity that is in me.
9Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end,
and may you establish the righteous—
you who ^rtest ^sthe minds and hearts, ▼

▼Hebrew  the hearts and kidneys

O righteous God!
10My shield is ^uwith God,
who saves ^vthe upright in heart.
11God is ^wa righteous judge,
and a God who feels ^xindignation every day.
12 If a man ▼

▼Hebrew he

does not repent, God ▼

▼Hebrew he

will ^aawhet his sword;
he has ^abbent and ^acreadied his bow;
13he has prepared for him his deadly weapons,
making his ^adarrows ^aefiery shafts.
14Behold, the wicked man ^afconceives evil
and is ^agpregnant with mischief
and gives birth to lies.
15He makes ^aha pit, digging it out,
and falls into the hole that he has made.
16His ^aimischief 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 ^ajsing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.

Psalms 88

I Cry Out Day and Night Before You

A Song. A Psalm of ^akthe Sons of Korah. To the choirmaster: according to ^alMahalath Leannoth. A Maskil ▼

▼Probably musical or liturgical terms

of ^anHeman the Ezrahite.

1 O Lord, ^aoGod of my salvation,
I ^apcry out day and night before you.
2Let my prayer come before you;
^aqincline your ear to my cry!
3 For my soul is full of troubles,
and ^army life draws near to ^asSheol.
4I am counted among those who ^atgo down to the pit;
I am a man who has no strength,
5like one set loose among the dead,
like the slain that lie in the grave,
like those whom ^auyou remember no more,
for they are ^avcut off from your hand.
6You have put me in ^awthe depths of the pit,
in the ^axregions dark and ^aydeep.
7Your wrath ^azlies heavy upon me,
and you overwhelm me with ^baall your waves.  Selah
8 You have caused ^bbmy companions to shun me;
you have made me ^bca horror ▼

▼Or an abomination

to them.
I am ^beshut in so that I cannot escape;
9 ^bfmy eye grows dim through sorrow.
Every day I call upon you, O Lord;
I ^bgspread out my hands to you.
10Do you work wonders for the dead?
^bhDo the departed rise up to praise you?  Selah
11Is your steadfast love declared in the grave,
or your faithfulness in Abaddon?
12Are your ^biwonders known in ^bjthe darkness,
or your righteousness in the land of ^bkforgetfulness?
13 But I, O Lord, cry ^blto you;
^bmin the morning my prayer comes before you.
14O Lord, why ^bndo you cast my soul away?
Why ^bodo you hide your face from me?
15Afflicted and close to death from my youth up,
I suffer your terrors; I am helpless. ▼

▼The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain

16Your wrath has swept over me;
your ^bqdreadful assaults destroy me.
17They ^brsurround me like a flood ^bsall day long;
they ^btclose in on me together.
18You have caused ^bumy beloved and my friend to shun me;
my companions have become darkness. ▼

▼Or darkness has become my only companion