7  O Lord my God, in you do I take refuge;

^dsave me from all my pursuers and deliver me,

2  lest ^elike a lion they tear my soul apart,

rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.

3  O Lord my God, if I have done this,

if there is wrong in my hands,

4  ^fif I have repaid my friend² with evil

or plundered my enemy without cause,

5  let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it,

and let him trample my life to the ground

and lay my glory ^gin the dust. Selah

6  Arise, O Lord, in your anger;

^hlift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;

ⁱawake 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 ^jjudges the peoples;

judge me, O Lord, ^kaccording 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 ^ltest the minds and hearts,³

O righteous God!

10  My ^mshield is with God,

who saves the upright in heart.

11  ⁿGod is a righteous judge,

and a God who feels indignation every day.

12  If a man⁴ does not repent, God⁵ will whet his sword;

he has bent and readied his bow;

13  he has prepared for him his deadly weapons,

making his arrows fiery shafts.

14  Behold, the wicked man ^oconceives evil

and is pregnant with mischief

and gives birth to lies.

15  He makes a pit, digging it out,

and ^pfalls into the hole that he has made.

16  His mischief returns upon his own head,

and on his own skull his violence descends.

17  ^qI will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness,

and I will sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.

8  O Lord, our Lord,

how ^smajestic is your name in all the earth!

^tYou have set your glory above the heavens.

2  ^uOut of the mouth of babies and infants,

you have established strength because of your foes,

to still the enemy and the avenger.

3  When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,

the moon and the stars, ^vwhich you have set in place,

4  ^wwhat is man that you are mindful of him,

and the son of man that you ^xcare for him?

5  Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings²

and crowned him with ^yglory and honor.

6  ^zYou have given him dominion over ^athe works of your hands;

^byou 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!

9  ^cI will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart;

I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.

2  I will be glad and ^dexult in you;

I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

3  When my enemies turn back,

they stumble and perish before³ your presence.

4  For you have ^emaintained my just cause;

you have sat on the ^fthrone, giving ^grighteous judgment.

5  You have rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish;

you have blotted 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 ^henthroned forever;

he has established his throne for justice,

8  and he ⁱjudges the world with righteousness;

he judges the peoples with uprightness.

9  ^jThe Lord is a stronghold for the ^koppressed,

a stronghold ^lin times of trouble.

10  And those who ^mknow your name put their trust in you,

for you, O Lord, have ⁿnot forsaken those who seek you.

11  Sing praises to the Lord, who sits enthroned in Zion!

^oTell among the peoples his deeds!

12  For he who ^pavenges blood is mindful of them;

^qhe does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

13  Be gracious to me, O Lord!

See my affliction from those who hate me,

O you who lift me up from the gates of death,

14  that I may recount all your praises,

that in the gates of the daughter of Zion

I may rejoice in your salvation.

15  The nations have ^rsunk in the pit that they made;

in the ^snet that they hid, their own foot has been caught.

16  The Lord has made himself known; he has executed judgment;

the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion.⁴ Selah

17  The wicked shall ^treturn to Sheol,

all the nations that ^uforget God.

18  For the needy shall not always be forgotten,

and the hope of the poor shall not perish forever.

19  Arise, O Lord! ^vLet not man prevail;

let the nations be judged before you!

20  Put them in fear, O Lord!

Let the nations know that they are but men! Selah

10  ^wWhy, O Lord, do you stand far away?

Why do you ^xhide yourself in times of trouble?

2  In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor;

^ylet them be caught in the schemes that they have devised.

3  For the wicked boasts of the desires of his soul,

and the one ^zgreedy for gain curses¹ and renounces the Lord.

4  In the pride of his face² the wicked does not seek him;³

all his thoughts are, ^a“There is no God.”

5  His ways prosper at all times;

your judgments are on high, out of his sight;

as for all his foes, he puffs at them.

6  He says in his heart, “I shall not be moved;

throughout all generations I shall not meet adversity.”

7  ^bHis mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression;

under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.

8  He sits in ambush in the villages;

^cin hiding places he murders the innocent.

His eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;

9  he lurks in ambush like a lion in his thicket;

he lurks that he may seize the poor;

he seizes the poor when he draws him into his net.

10  The helpless are crushed, sink down,

and fall by his might.

11  He says in his heart, “God has forgotten,

he has hidden his face, ^dhe will never see it.”

12  Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up your hand;

^eforget not the afflicted.

13  Why does the wicked renounce God

and say in his heart, “You will not call to account”?

14  But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation,

that you may take it into your hands;

to you the helpless commits himself;

^fyou have been the helper of the fatherless.

15  Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer;

^gcall his wickedness to account till you find none.

16  ^hThe Lord is king forever and ever;

the nations perish from his land.

17  O Lord, you hear the desire of the afflicted;

you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear

18  to do ⁱjustice to the fatherless and the ^joppressed,

^kso that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.

11  In the Lord I take refuge;

how can you say to my soul,

Flee like a bird to your mountain,

2  for behold, the wicked bend the bow;

they have fitted their arrow to the string

to shoot in the dark at the upright in heart;

3  if the foundations are destroyed,

what can the righteous do?¹

4  ^lThe Lord is in his holy temple;

the Lord’s throne is in heaven;

his eyes see, his eyelids test the children of man.

5  The Lord tests the righteous,

but his soul ^mhates the wicked and the one who loves violence.

6  ⁿLet him rain coals on the wicked;

fire and sulfur and a scorching wind shall be the portion of their ^ocup.

7  For the Lord is righteous;

he loves righteous deeds;

^pthe upright shall ^qbehold his face.