1  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.

1  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 beings⁷

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!

1  ^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 before¹⁰ 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.¹¹ 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