Psa 7-12 | ESV | STEP | A Shiggaion of David , which he sang to the Lord concerning the words of Cush , a Benjaminite . O Lord my God , in you do I take refuge ; save me from all my pursuers and deliver me,

1 O Lord my God, in you do I ^ctake refuge;
^dsave me from all my pursuers and deliver me,
2 lest 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,
4 if I have repaid ⁱmy friend ^{▼▼Hebrew the one at peace with me} with evil
or ^kplundered my enemy without cause,
5 let 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.
7 Let 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.
9 Oh, 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!
10 My shield is ^uwith God,
who saves ^vthe upright in heart.
11 God 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;
13 he has prepared for him his deadly weapons,
making his ^adarrows ^aefiery shafts.
14 Behold, the wicked man ^afconceives evil
and is ^agpregnant with mischief
and gives birth to lies.
15 He makes ^aha pit, digging it out,
and falls into the hole that he has made.
16 His ^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 8

How Majestic Is Your Name

To the choirmaster: according to The ^akGittith. ^{▼▼Probably a musical or liturgical term} A Psalm of David.

1 O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your ^amname in all the earth!
You have set your ^anglory above the heavens.
2 ^aoOut of the mouth of babies and infants,
you have established ^apstrength because of your foes,
to still ^aqthe enemy and the avenger.
3 When I ^arlook at your heavens, the work of your ^asfingers,
the moon and the stars, ^atwhich you have set in place,
4 ^auwhat is man that you are ^avmindful of him,
and ^awthe son of man that you ^axcare for him?
5 Yet you have made him a little lower than ^aythe heavenly beings ^{▼▼Or than God; Septuagint than the angels}
and crowned him with ^baglory and honor.
6 You have given him ^bbdominion over the works of your hands;
^bcyou 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!

Psalms 9

I Will Recount Your Wonderful Deeds

^{▼▼Psalms 9 and 10 together follow an acrostic pattern, each stanza beginning with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet. In the Septuagint they form one psalm} To the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben. ^{▼▼Probably a musical or liturgical term} A Psalm of David.

1 I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart;
I will recount all of your ^bfwonderful deeds.
2 I will be glad and ^bgexult in you;
I will ^bhsing praise to your name, ^biO Most High.
3 When my enemies turn back,
they stumble and perish before ^{▼▼Or because of} your presence.
4 For you have ^bkmaintained my just cause;
you have ^blsat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.
5 You have ^bmrebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish;
you have ^bnblotted out their name forever and ever.
6 The enemy came to an end in everlasting ruins;
their cities you rooted out;
the very memory of them has perished.
7 But the Lord sits enthroned forever;
he has established his throne for justice,
8 and he ^bojudges the world with righteousness;
he ^bpjudges the peoples with uprightness.
9 The Lord is ^bqa stronghold for ^brthe oppressed,
a stronghold in ^bstimes of trouble.
10 And those who ^btknow your name put their trust in you,
for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.
11 Sing praises to the Lord, who ^busits enthroned in Zion!
Tell among the peoples his ^bvdeeds!
12 For he who ^bwavenges blood is mindful of them;
he ^bxdoes not forget the cry of the afflicted.
13 ^byBe gracious to me, O Lord!
See my affliction from those who hate me,
O you who lift me up from ^bzthe gates of death,
14 that I may recount all your praises,
that in the gates of ^cathe daughter of Zion
I may ^cbrejoice in your salvation.
15 The nations have sunk in ^ccthe pit that they made;
in ^cdthe net that they hid, their own foot has been caught.
16 The Lord has made himself ^ceknown; he has executed judgment;
the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion. ^{▼▼Probably a musical or liturgical term} Selah
17 The wicked shall ^cgreturn to Sheol,
all the nations that ^chforget God.
18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten,
and ^cithe hope of the poor shall not perish forever.
19 ^cjArise, O Lord! Let not ^ckman prevail;
let the nations be judged before you!
20 Put them in fear, O Lord!
Let the nations know that they are but ^clmen! Selah

Psalms 10

Why Do You Hide Yourself?

1 Why, O Lord, do you stand ^cmfar away?
Why ^cndo you hide yourself in ^cotimes of trouble?
2 In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor;
let them ^cpbe caught in the schemes that they have devised.
3 For the wicked ^cqboasts of the desires of his soul,
and the one greedy for gain ^crcurses ^{▼▼Or and he blesses the one greedy for gain} and ^ctrenounces the Lord.
4 In the pride of his face ^{▼▼Or of his anger} the wicked does not ^cvseek him; ^{▼▼Or the wicked says, “He will not call to account”}
all his thoughts are, ^cx“There is no God.”
5 His ways prosper at all times;
your judgments are on high, ^cyout of his sight;
as for all his foes, he ^czpuffs at them.
6 He ^dasays in his heart, “I shall not be moved;
throughout all generations I ^dbshall not meet adversity.”
7 ^dcHis mouth is filled with cursing and ^dddeceit and ^deoppression;
^dfunder his tongue are ^dgmischief and ^dhiniquity.
8 He sits in ambush in the villages;
in ^dihiding places he murders the innocent.
His eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;
9 he lurks in ambush like ^dja lion in his ^dkthicket;
he ^dllurks that he may seize the poor;
he seizes the poor when he draws him into his ^dmnet.
10 The helpless are crushed, sink down,
and fall by his might.
11 He says in his heart, “God has forgotten,
he has ^dnhidden his face, he ^dowill never see it.”
12 ^dpArise, O Lord; O God, ^dqlift up your hand;
^drforget not the afflicted.
13 Why does the wicked ^dsrenounce God
and say in his heart, “You will not ^dtcall to account”?
14 But you do see, for you ^dunote mischief and vexation,
that you may take it into your hands;
to you the helpless ^dvcommits himself;
you have been ^dwthe helper of the fatherless.
15 ^dxBreak the arm of the wicked and evildoer;
^dycall his wickedness to account till you find none.
16 ^dzThe Lord is king forever and ever;
the ^eanations perish from his land.
17 O Lord, you hear the desire of the afflicted;
you will ^ebstrengthen their heart; you will incline your ear
18 to ^ecdo justice to the fatherless and ^edthe oppressed,
so that ^eeman who is of the earth may strike terror no more.

Psalms 11

The Lord Is in His Holy Temple

To the choirmaster. Of David.

1 In the Lord I take refuge;
how can you say to my soul,
^ef“Flee like a bird to your mountain,
2 for behold, the wicked ^egbend the bow;
^ehthey have fitted their arrow to the string
to shoot in the dark at the upright in heart;
3 if ^eithe foundations are destroyed,
what can the righteous do?” ^{▼▼Or for the foundations will be destroyed; what has the righteous done?}
4 ^ekThe Lord is in his holy temple;
the Lord’s ^elthrone is in heaven;
his eyes see, his eyelids ^emtest the children of man.
5 The Lord ^entests the righteous,
but ^eohis soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.
6 Let him rain coals on the wicked;
^epfire and sulfur and a scorching wind shall be ^eqthe portion of their cup.
7 For the Lord is righteous;
he ^erloves righteous deeds;
^esthe upright shall behold his face.

Psalms 12

The Faithful Have Vanished

To the choirmaster: according to The Sheminith. ^{▼▼Probably a musical or liturgical term} A Psalm of David.

1 Save, O Lord, for ^euthe godly one is gone;
for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man.
2 Everyone ^evutters lies to his neighbor;
with ^ewflattering lips and ^exa double heart they speak.
3 May the Lord cut off all ^eyflattering lips,
the tongue that makes ^ezgreat boasts,
4 those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail,
our lips are with us; who is master over us?”
5 “Because ^fathe poor are plundered, because the needy groan,
^fbI will now arise,” says the Lord;
“I will place him in the ^fcsafety for which he longs.”
6 ^fdThe words of the Lord are pure words,
like silver refined in a furnace on the ground,
purified seven times.
7 You, O Lord, will keep them;
you will guard us ^{▼▼Or guard him} from this generation forever.
8 On every side the wicked prowl,
as vileness is exalted among the children of man.

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.