Shiggaion of David, which he sang to Jehovah, concerning the words of Cush the Benjaminite.

7 Jehovah my God, in thee have I trusted: save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me;

² Lest he tear my soul like a lion, crushing it while there is no deliverer.

³ Jehovah my God, if I have done this, if there be iniquity in my hands;

⁴ If I have rewarded evil to him that was at peace with me; (indeed I have freed him that without cause oppressed me;)

⁵ Let the enemy pursue after my soul, and take [it], and let him tread down my life to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.

⁶ Arise, Jehovah, in thine anger; lift thyself up against the raging of mine oppressors, and awake for me: thou hast commanded judgment.

⁷ And the assembly of the peoples shall encompass thee; and for their sakes return thou on high.

⁸ Jehovah shall minister judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Jehovah, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity which is in me.

⁹ Oh let the wrong of the wicked come to an end, and establish thou the righteous [man]; even thou that triest the hearts and reins, the righteous God.

¹⁰ My shield is with God, who saveth the upright in heart.

¹¹ God is a righteous judge, and a God who is indignant all the day.

¹² If one turn not, he will sharpen his sword; he hath bent his bow and made it ready,

¹³ And he hath prepared for him instruments of death; his arrows hath he made burning.

¹⁴ Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, yea, he hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood:

¹⁵ He digged a pit, and hollowed it out, and is fallen into the hole that he made.

¹⁶ His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violence shall come down upon his own pate.

¹⁷ I will praise Jehovah according to his righteousness, and will sing forth the name of Jehovah the Most High.

To the chief Musician. Upon the Gittith. A Psalm of David.

8 Jehovah our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy majesty above the heavens.

² Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established praise because of thine adversaries, to still the enemy and the avenger.

³ When I see thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and stars, which thou hast established;

⁴ What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

⁵ Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and splendour.

⁶ Thou hast made him to rule over the works of thy hands; thou hast put everything under his feet:

⁷ Sheep and oxen, all of them, and also the beasts of the field;

⁸ The fowl of the heavens, and the fishes of the sea, [whatever] passeth through the paths of the seas.

⁹ Jehovah our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

To the chief Musician. Upon Muthlabben. A Psalm of David.

9 I will praise Jehovah with my whole heart; I will recount all thy marvellous works.

² I will be glad and rejoice in thee; I will sing forth thy name, O Most High.

³ When mine enemies turned back, they stumbled and perished at thy presence:

⁴ For thou hast maintained my right and my cause. Thou sittest on the throne, judging righteously.

⁵ Thou hast rebuked the nations, thou hast destroyed the wicked; thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.

⁶ O enemy! destructions are ended for ever.—Thou hast also destroyed cities, even the remembrance of them hath perished.

⁷ But Jehovah sitteth for ever; he hath ordained his throne for judgment.

⁸ And it is he that will judge the world with righteousness; he shall execute judgment upon the peoples with equity.

⁹ And Jehovah will be a refuge to the oppressed one, a refuge in times of distress.

¹⁰ And they that know thy name will confide in thee; for thou, Jehovah, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

¹¹ Sing psalms to Jehovah who dwelleth in Zion; tell among the peoples his doings.

¹² For when he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them; the cry of the afflicted ones hath he not forgotten.

¹³ Be gracious unto me, O Jehovah; consider mine affliction from them that hate me, lifting me up from the gates of death:

¹⁴ That I may declare all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion. I will be joyful in thy salvation.

¹⁵ The nations are sunk down in the pit [that] they made; in the net that they hid is their own foot taken.

¹⁶ Jehovah is known [by] the judgment he hath executed: the wicked is ensnared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

¹⁷ The wicked shall be turned into Sheol, all the nations that forget God.

¹⁸ For the needy one shall not be forgotten alway; the hope of the meek shall not perish for ever.

¹⁹ Arise, Jehovah; let not man prevail: let the nations be judged in thy sight.

²⁰ Put them in fear, Jehovah: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.