1 ¶ O LORD my God, I put my trust in you: save me from all those who persecute me, and deliver me:

2 Lest my foe tear my soul like a lion, ripping it to pieces, while there is none to deliver me.

3 O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there is iniquity in my hands;

4 If I have done harm to one who was at peace with me; or spared my enemy for no reason:

5 Let the enemy pursue my life, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay my honor in the dust. Selah.

6 Arise, O LORD, in your anger, rise against the fury of my enemies: and awake for me the justice that you have commanded.

7 Let the congregation of the people be gathered around you: and for their sake reign on high.

8 The LORD will judge the nations: judge me, O LORD, according to my integrity, and according to the innocence that is in me.

9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the righteous: for the righteous God examines the minds and hearts.

10 ¶ My defense is from God, who saves the upright in heart.

11 God judges the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.

12 If man does not turn, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready.

13 He has prepared for him the instruments of death; he tips his arrows with fire.

14 Behold, the wicked man conceives iniquity, is pregnant with mischief, and brings forth falsehood.

15 He made a pit, and keeps on digging, and falls into the hole that he made.

16 The harm he plans will come back on his own head, and the violence he deals out will come down on his own skull.

17 I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.

Psalm 8

To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David.

1 ¶ O LORD our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth! you have set your glory above the heavens.

2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings you have ordained praise because of your enemies, so that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.

3 ¶ When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you set in place;

4 What is man, that you are mindful of him? and the son of man, that you visit him?

5 For you made him a little lower than the angels, and crowned him with glory and honor.

6 You made him to have dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet:

7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

8 The birds of the air, the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth!

Psalm 9

To the chief Musician upon Muthlabben, A Psalm of David.

1 ¶ I will praise you, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will declare all your marvelous works.

2 I will be glad and rejoice in you: I will sing praise to your name, O most High.

3 When my enemies retreat, they will fall and perish before you.

4 For you have upheld my cause; you sat on the throne judging righteously.

5 You have rebuked the heathen, you have destroyed the wicked, you have blotted out their name for ever and ever.

6 The enemy is finished, destroyed forever: you have uprooted their cities; and their memory has perished with them.

7 But the LORD will endure forever: he has prepared his throne for judgment.

8 And he will judge the world in righteousness, he will administer judgment to the people in uprightness.

9 The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

10 And those who know your name will put their trust in you: for you, LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.

11 ¶ Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion: declare his deeds among the people.

12 For the one who seeks an accounting for bloodshed, remembers them: he does not forget the cry of the humble.

13 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider how I am afflicted by those who hate me, lift me up from the gates of death:

14 So that I can proclaim your praise in the gates of Zion’s people: I will rejoice in your salvation.

15 The heathen have sunk down into the pit that they made: their own foot is caught in the net that they hid.

16 The LORD is known by the judgment that he carries out: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Think of it. Selah.

17 The wicked will be turned into hell, along with all the nations that forget God.

18 For the needy will not always be forgotten: nor the hope of the poor be lost forever.

19 Arise, O LORD; do not let man prevail: let the nations be judged before you.

20 Put them in fear, O LORD: so that the nations will know that they are only men. Selah.