Psalm 6-10
New American Standard Bible
Prayer for Mercy in Time of Trouble.
For the music director; with stringed instruments, [a]upon an eight-string lyre. A Psalm of David.
6 Lord, (A)do not rebuke me in Your anger,
Nor discipline me in Your wrath.
2 Be gracious to me, Lord, for I am (B)frail;
(C)Heal me, Lord, for (D)my bones are horrified.
3 And my (E)soul is greatly horrified;
But You, Lord—(F)how long?
4 Return, Lord, (G)rescue my [b]soul;
Save me because of Your mercy.
5 For (H)there is no [c]mention of You in death;
In [d]Sheol, who will praise You?
6 I am (I)weary with my sighing;
Every night I make my bed swim,
I flood my couch with (J)my tears.
7 My (K)eye has wasted away with grief;
It has grown old because of all my enemies.
8 (L)Leave me, all you who practice injustice,
For the Lord (M)has heard the sound of my weeping.
9 The Lord (N)has heard my pleading,
The Lord (O)receives my prayer.
10 All my enemies will (P)be put to shame and greatly horrified;
They shall [e]turn back, they will (Q)suddenly be put to shame.
The Lord Implored to Defend the Psalmist against the Wicked.
A [f]Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the Lord [g]concerning Cush, a Benjaminite.
7 O Lord my God, (R)in You I have taken refuge;
Save me from all those who pursue me, and (S)rescue me,
2 Or he will tear [h]my soul (T)like a lion,
Dragging me away, while there is no one to rescue me.
3 O Lord my God, if I have done this,
If there is (U)injustice in my hands,
4 If I have (V)done evil to [i]my friend,
Or have (W)plundered [j]my enemy for no reason,
5 Let the enemy pursue [k]my soul and overtake [l]it;
And let him trample my life to the ground
And lay my glory in the dust. Selah
6 (X)Arise, Lord, in Your anger;
(Y)Raise Yourself against (Z)the rage of my enemies,
And (AA)stir Yourself [m]for me; You have ordered judgment.
7 Let the assembly of the (AB)peoples encompass You,
And return on high over it.
8 The Lord (AC)judges the peoples;
[n](AD)Vindicate me, Lord, according to my righteousness and my integrity that is in me.
9 Please let (AE)the evil of the wicked come to an end, but (AF)establish the righteous;
For the righteous God (AG)puts hearts and [o]minds to the test.
10 My (AH)shield is [p]with God,
Who (AI)saves the upright in heart.
11 God is a (AJ)righteous judge,
And a God who (AK)shows indignation every day.
12 If one (AL)does not repent, He will (AM)sharpen His sword;
He has (AN)bent His bow and taken aim.
13 He has also prepared deadly weapons for Himself;
He makes His (AO)arrows fiery shafts.
14 Behold, an evil person is pregnant with injustice,
And he (AP)conceives harm and gives birth to lies.
15 He has dug a pit and hollowed it out,
And has (AQ)fallen into the hole which he made.
16 His (AR)harm will return on his own head,
And his (AS)violence will descend on the top of his own head.
17 I will give thanks to the Lord (AT)according to His righteousness
And will (AU)sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High.
The Lord’s Glory and Mankind’s Dignity.
For the music director; on the Gittith. A Psalm of David.
8 Lord, our Lord,
How majestic is Your name in all the earth,
You who have [q](AV)displayed Your splendor above the heavens!
2 (AW)From the mouths of infants and nursing babies You have established [r](AX)strength
Because of Your enemies,
To do away with (AY)the enemy and the revengeful.
3 When I [s](AZ)consider (BA)Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The (BB)moon and the stars, which You have set in place;
4 (BC)What is man that You think of him,
And a son of man that You are concerned about him?
5 Yet You have made him a (BD)little lower than [t]God,
And (BE)You crown him with (BF)glory and majesty!
6 You have him (BG)rule over the works of Your hands;
You have (BH)put everything under his feet,
7 All sheep and oxen,
And also the animals of the field,
8 The birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea,
Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
9 (BI)Lord, our Lord,
How majestic is Your name in all the earth!
Thanksgiving for God’s Justice.
For the music director; on [u]Muth-labben. A Psalm of David.
9 I will give thanks to the Lord with all (BJ)my heart;
I will (BK)tell of all Your [v]wonders.
2 I will rejoice and be (BL)jubilant in You;
I will (BM)sing praise to Your name, O (BN)Most High.
3 When my enemies turn back,
They stumble and (BO)perish before You.
4 For You have (BP)maintained [w]my just cause;
You have sat on the throne [x](BQ)judging righteously.
5 You have (BR)rebuked the nations, You have eliminated the wicked;
You have (BS)wiped out their name forever and ever.
6 [y]The enemy has come to an end in everlasting ruins,
And You have uprooted the cities;
The very (BT)memory of them has perished.
7 But the (BU)Lord [z]sits as King forever;
He has established His (BV)throne for judgment,
8 And He will (BW)judge the world in righteousness;
He will execute judgment for the peoples fairly.
9 [aa]The Lord will also be a (BX)stronghold for the oppressed,
A stronghold in times of trouble;
10 And [ab]those who (BY)know Your name will put their trust in You,
For You, Lord, have not (BZ)abandoned those who seek You.
11 Sing praises to the Lord, who (CA)dwells in Zion;
(CB)Declare His deeds among the peoples.
12 For (CC)He who [ac]requires blood remembers them;
He does not forget (CD)the cry of the needy.
13 Be gracious to me, Lord;
See my oppression from those (CE)who hate me,
You who (CF)lift me up from the gates of death,
14 So that I may tell of (CG)all Your praises,
That in the gates of the daughter of Zion
I may (CH)rejoice in Your [ad]salvation.
15 The nations have sunk down (CI)into the pit which they have made;
In the (CJ)net which they hid, their own foot has been caught.
16 The Lord has (CK)made Himself known;
He has (CL)executed judgment.
A wicked one is ensnared in the work of his own hands. [ae]Higgaion Selah
17 The wicked will [af](CM)return to [ag]Sheol,
All the nations who (CN)forget God.
18 For the (CO)needy will not always be forgotten,
Nor the (CP)hope of the afflicted perish forever.
19 (CQ)Arise, Lord, do not let mankind prevail;
Let the nations be (CR)judged before You.
20 Put them (CS)in fear, Lord;
Let the nations know that they are (CT)merely human. Selah
A Prayer for the Overthrow of the Wicked.
10 Why (CU)do You stand far away, Lord?
Why (CV)do You hide [ah]Yourself in times of trouble?
2 In (CW)arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the needy;
[ai]Let them be (CX)caught in the plots which they have devised.
3 For the wicked (CY)boasts of his (CZ)soul’s desire,
And [aj]the greedy person curses and (DA)shows disrespect to the Lord.
4 The wicked, [ak]in his haughtiness, (DB)does not seek Him.
(DC)There is no God in all his schemes.
5 His ways (DD)succeed at all times;
Yet Your judgments are on high, (DE)out of his sight;
As for all his enemies, he snorts at them.
6 He says to himself, “(DF)I will not be moved;
[al]Throughout the generations (DG)I will not be in adversity.”
7 His (DH)mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and (DI)oppression;
(DJ)Under his tongue is harm and injustice.
8 He sits in the (DK)lurking places of the villages;
He (DL)kills the innocent in the secret places;
His eyes [am]surreptitiously watch for the [an](DM)unfortunate.
9 He lurks in secret like (DN)a lion in his [ao]lair;
He (DO)lurks to catch (DP)the needy;
He catches the needy when he pulls him into his (DQ)net.
10 Then he crushes the needy one, who cowers;
And [ap]unfortunate people fall by his mighty power.
11 He (DR)says to himself, “God has forgotten;
He has hidden His face; He will never see it.”
12 Arise, Lord; God, (DS)lift up Your hand.
(DT)Do not forget the humble.
13 Why has the wicked (DU)treated God disrespectfully?
He has said to himself, “[aq]You will not require an account.”
14 You have seen it, for You have looked at (DV)harm and provocation to [ar]take it into Your hand.
The [as](DW)unfortunate commits himself to You;
You have been the (DX)helper of the orphan.
15 (DY)Break the arm of the wicked and the evildoer,
[at](DZ)Seek out his wickedness until You find none.
16 The Lord is (EA)King forever and ever;
(EB)Nations have perished from His land.
17 Lord, You have heard the (EC)desire of the humble;
You will (ED)strengthen their heart, (EE)You will make Your ear attentive
18 To [au]vindicate the (EF)orphan and the (EG)oppressed,
So that mankind, which is of the earth, will no longer cause (EH)terror.
Footnotes
- Psalm 6 Title Or according to a lower octave (Heb Sheminith)
- Psalm 6:4 Or life
- Psalm 6:5 Or remembrance
- Psalm 6:5 I.e., the netherworld
- Psalm 6:10 Or again be abruptly put to shame
- Psalm 7 Title I.e., Dithyrambic rhythm; or wild, passionate song
- Psalm 7 Title Or concerning the words of
- Psalm 7:2 Or me
- Psalm 7:4 Lit him who was at peace with me
- Psalm 7:4 Or him who for no reason was my enemy,
- Psalm 7:5 Or me
- Psalm 7:5 Or me
- Psalm 7:6 One ancient version reads O my God
- Psalm 7:8 Lit Judge
- Psalm 7:9 Lit kidneys, figurative for inner man
- Psalm 7:10 Lit upon
- Psalm 8:1 Lit put
- Psalm 8:2 Or a strength
- Psalm 8:3 Or see
- Psalm 8:5 LXX angels
- Psalm 9 Title Meaning of the Heb uncertain
- Psalm 9:1 Or miracles
- Psalm 9:4 Lit my right and my cause
- Psalm 9:4 Or a righteous Judge
- Psalm 9:6 Or O enemy, desolations are finished forever; And their cities You have uprooted
- Psalm 9:7 Or remains forever
- Psalm 9:9 Or Let the Lord also be
- Psalm 9:10 Or let those...name put
- Psalm 9:12 I.e., avenges bloodshed
- Psalm 9:14 Or deliverance
- Psalm 9:16 Perhaps, resounding music or meditation
- Psalm 9:17 Or turn
- Psalm 9:17 I.e., the netherworld
- Psalm 10:1 Or Your eyes
- Psalm 10:2 Or They will be caught
- Psalm 10:3 Or blesses the greedy man
- Psalm 10:4 Lit the height of his nose
- Psalm 10:6 Lit To
- Psalm 10:8 Lit lie in wait
- Psalm 10:8 Or poor
- Psalm 10:9 Or thicket
- Psalm 10:10 Or unhappy
- Psalm 10:13 I.e., as though God will ignore it
- Psalm 10:14 Lit put, give
- Psalm 10:14 Or poor
- Psalm 10:15 Or May You seek
- Psalm 10:18 Lit judge
Psalm 6-10
New International Version
Psalm 6[a]
For the director of music. With stringed instruments. According to sheminith.[b] A psalm of David.
1 Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger(A)
or discipline me in your wrath.
2 Have mercy on me,(B) Lord, for I am faint;(C)
heal me,(D) Lord, for my bones are in agony.(E)
3 My soul is in deep anguish.(F)
How long,(G) Lord, how long?
4 Turn,(H) Lord, and deliver me;
save me because of your unfailing love.(I)
5 Among the dead no one proclaims your name.
Who praises you from the grave?(J)
All night long I flood my bed with weeping(M)
and drench my couch with tears.(N)
7 My eyes grow weak(O) with sorrow;
they fail because of all my foes.
8 Away from me,(P) all you who do evil,(Q)
for the Lord has heard my weeping.
9 The Lord has heard my cry for mercy;(R)
the Lord accepts my prayer.
10 All my enemies will be overwhelmed with shame and anguish;(S)
they will turn back and suddenly be put to shame.(T)
Psalm 7[c]
A shiggaion[d](U) of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning Cush, a Benjamite.
1 Lord my God, I take refuge(V) in you;
save and deliver me(W) from all who pursue me,(X)
2 or they will tear me apart like a lion(Y)
and rip me to pieces with no one to rescue(Z) me.
3 Lord my God, if I have done this
and there is guilt on my hands(AA)—
4 if I have repaid my ally with evil
or without cause(AB) have robbed my foe—
5 then let my enemy pursue and overtake(AC) me;
let him trample my life to the ground(AD)
and make me sleep in the dust.[e](AE)
6 Arise,(AF) Lord, in your anger;
rise up against the rage of my enemies.(AG)
Awake,(AH) my God; decree justice.
7 Let the assembled peoples gather around you,
while you sit enthroned over them on high.(AI)
8 Let the Lord judge(AJ) the peoples.
Vindicate me, Lord, according to my righteousness,(AK)
according to my integrity,(AL) O Most High.(AM)
9 Bring to an end the violence of the wicked
and make the righteous secure—(AN)
you, the righteous God(AO)
who probes minds and hearts.(AP)
10 My shield[f](AQ) is God Most High,
who saves the upright in heart.(AR)
11 God is a righteous judge,(AS)
a God who displays his wrath(AT) every day.
12 If he does not relent,(AU)
he[g] will sharpen his sword;(AV)
he will bend and string his bow.(AW)
13 He has prepared his deadly weapons;
he makes ready his flaming arrows.(AX)
14 Whoever is pregnant with evil
conceives trouble and gives birth(AY) to disillusionment.
15 Whoever digs a hole and scoops it out
falls into the pit(AZ) they have made.(BA)
16 The trouble they cause recoils on them;
their violence comes down on their own heads.
17 I will give thanks to the Lord because of his righteousness;(BB)
I will sing the praises(BC) of the name of the Lord Most High.(BD)
Psalm 8[h]
For the director of music. According to gittith.[i] A psalm of David.
1 Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name(BE) in all the earth!
You have set your glory(BF)
in the heavens.(BG)
2 Through the praise of children and infants
you have established a stronghold(BH) against your enemies,
to silence the foe(BI) and the avenger.
3 When I consider your heavens,(BJ)
the work of your fingers,(BK)
the moon and the stars,(BL)
which you have set in place,
4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them?[j](BM)
5 You have made them[k] a little lower than the angels[l](BN)
and crowned them[m] with glory and honor.(BO)
6 You made them rulers(BP) over the works of your hands;(BQ)
you put everything under their[n] feet:(BR)
7 all flocks and herds,(BS)
and the animals of the wild,(BT)
8 the birds in the sky,
and the fish in the sea,(BU)
all that swim the paths of the seas.
9 Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!(BV)
Psalm 9[o][p]
For the director of music. To the tune of “The Death of the Son.” A psalm of David.
1 I will give thanks to you, Lord, with all my heart;(BW)
I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.(BX)
2 I will be glad and rejoice(BY) in you;
I will sing the praises(BZ) of your name,(CA) O Most High.
3 My enemies turn back;
they stumble and perish before you.
4 For you have upheld my right(CB) and my cause,(CC)
sitting enthroned(CD) as the righteous judge.(CE)
5 You have rebuked the nations(CF) and destroyed the wicked;
you have blotted out their name(CG) for ever and ever.
6 Endless ruin has overtaken my enemies,
you have uprooted their cities;(CH)
even the memory of them(CI) has perished.
7 The Lord reigns forever;(CJ)
he has established his throne(CK) for judgment.
8 He rules the world in righteousness(CL)
and judges the peoples with equity.(CM)
9 The Lord is a refuge(CN) for the oppressed,(CO)
a stronghold in times of trouble.(CP)
10 Those who know your name(CQ) trust in you,
for you, Lord, have never forsaken(CR) those who seek you.(CS)
11 Sing the praises(CT) of the Lord, enthroned in Zion;(CU)
proclaim among the nations(CV) what he has done.(CW)
12 For he who avenges blood(CX) remembers;
he does not ignore the cries of the afflicted.(CY)
13 Lord, see how my enemies(CZ) persecute me!
Have mercy(DA) and lift me up from the gates of death,(DB)
14 that I may declare your praises(DC)
in the gates of Daughter Zion,(DD)
and there rejoice in your salvation.(DE)
15 The nations have fallen into the pit they have dug;(DF)
their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.(DG)
16 The Lord is known by his acts of justice;
the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands.[q](DH)
17 The wicked go down to the realm of the dead,(DI)
all the nations that forget God.(DJ)
18 But God will never forget the needy;
the hope(DK) of the afflicted(DL) will never perish.
19 Arise,(DM) Lord, do not let mortals triumph;(DN)
let the nations be judged(DO) in your presence.
20 Strike them with terror,(DP) Lord;
let the nations know they are only mortal.(DQ)
Psalm 10[r]
2 In his arrogance the wicked man hunts down the weak,(DT)
who are caught in the schemes he devises.
3 He boasts(DU) about the cravings of his heart;
he blesses the greedy and reviles the Lord.(DV)
4 In his pride the wicked man does not seek him;
in all his thoughts there is no room for God.(DW)
5 His ways are always prosperous;
your laws are rejected by[s] him;
he sneers at all his enemies.
6 He says to himself, “Nothing will ever shake me.”
He swears, “No one will ever do me harm.”(DX)
7 His mouth is full(DY) of lies and threats;(DZ)
trouble and evil are under his tongue.(EA)
8 He lies in wait(EB) near the villages;
from ambush he murders the innocent.(EC)
His eyes watch in secret for his victims;
9 like a lion in cover he lies in wait.
He lies in wait to catch the helpless;(ED)
he catches the helpless and drags them off in his net.(EE)
10 His victims are crushed,(EF) they collapse;
they fall under his strength.
11 He says to himself, “God will never notice;(EG)
he covers his face and never sees.”(EH)
12 Arise,(EI) Lord! Lift up your hand,(EJ) O God.
Do not forget the helpless.(EK)
13 Why does the wicked man revile God?(EL)
Why does he say to himself,
“He won’t call me to account”?(EM)
14 But you, God, see the trouble(EN) of the afflicted;
you consider their grief and take it in hand.
The victims commit themselves to you;(EO)
you are the helper(EP) of the fatherless.
15 Break the arm of the wicked man;(EQ)
call the evildoer to account for his wickedness
that would not otherwise be found out.
16 The Lord is King for ever and ever;(ER)
the nations(ES) will perish from his land.
17 You, Lord, hear the desire of the afflicted;(ET)
you encourage them, and you listen to their cry,(EU)
18 defending the fatherless(EV) and the oppressed,(EW)
so that mere earthly mortals
will never again strike terror.
Footnotes
- Psalm 6:1 In Hebrew texts 6:1-10 is numbered 6:2-11.
- Psalm 6:1 Title: Probably a musical term
- Psalm 7:1 In Hebrew texts 7:1-17 is numbered 7:2-18.
- Psalm 7:1 Title: Probably a literary or musical term
- Psalm 7:5 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here.
- Psalm 7:10 Or sovereign
- Psalm 7:12 Or If anyone does not repent, / God
- Psalm 8:1 In Hebrew texts 8:1-9 is numbered 8:2-10.
- Psalm 8:1 Title: Probably a musical term
- Psalm 8:4 Or what is a human being that you are mindful of him, / a son of man that you care for him?
- Psalm 8:5 Or him
- Psalm 8:5 Or than God
- Psalm 8:5 Or him
- Psalm 8:6 Or made him ruler . . . ; / . . . his
- Psalm 9:1 Psalms 9 and 10 may originally have been a single acrostic poem in which alternating lines began with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet. In the Septuagint they constitute one psalm.
- Psalm 9:1 In Hebrew texts 9:1-20 is numbered 9:2-21.
- Psalm 9:16 The Hebrew has Higgaion and Selah (words of uncertain meaning) here; Selah occurs also at the end of verse 20.
- Psalm 10:1 Psalms 9 and 10 may originally have been a single acrostic poem in which alternating lines began with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet. In the Septuagint they constitute one psalm.
- Psalm 10:5 See Septuagint; Hebrew / they are haughty, and your laws are far from
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