7 But as for me, in the abundance of thy lovingkindness will I come into thy house: In thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.

8 Lead me, O Jehovah, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies;

Make thy way 2 straight before my face.

9 For there is no 3 faithfulness in their mouth;

Their inward part is wickedness;

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4 very

Their throat is an open sepulchre; They flatter with their tongue. 10 Hold them guilty, O God;

Let them fall by their own
counsels;

Thrust them out in the multitude
of their transgressions;
For they have rebelled against
thee.

117 But let all those that take refuge in thee rejoice,

Let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: Let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.

12 For thou wilt bless the righteous; O Jehovah, thou wilt compass

him with favor as with a shield. Prayer for Mercy in Time of Trouble. For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments, set to 8 the Sheminith. A Psalm of David.

I water my couch with my tears. 7 Mine eye wasteth away because of grief;

It waxeth old because of all mine adversaries.

8 Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity;

For Jehovah hath heard the voice of my weeping.

9 Jehovah hath heard my supplication;

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Jehovah will receive my prayer.
All mine enemies shall be put to
shame and sore troubled:
They shall turn back, they shall
be put to shame suddenly.

Jehovah implored to defend the
Psalmist against the Wicked.
Shiggaion of David, which he sang unto
Jehovah, concerning the words of
Cush a Benjamite.

Jehovah my God, in thee do
I take refuge:

Save me from all them that pur-
sue me, and deliver me,

2 Lest they tear my soul like a lion,

Rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

30 Jehovah my God, if I have done this;

If there be iniquity in my hands; 4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me (Yea, I have delivered him that without cause was mine adversary);

5 Let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it;

Yea, let him tread my life down to the earth,

And lay my glory in the dust.

[Selah

6 Arise, O Jehovah, in thine anger: Lift up thyself against the rage of mine adversaries,

And awake for me; thou hast commanded judgment.

71 And let the congregation of the peoples compass thee about; And over them return thou on high.

8 Jehovah ministereth judgment to the peoples:

Judge me, O Jehovah, according to my righteousness, and to mine integrity 2 that is in me. 9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish thou the righteous: For the righteous God trieth the minds and hearts.

10 My shield is with God,

Who saveth the upright in heart. 11 God is a righteous judge,

Yea, a God that hath indignation every day.

12 4 If a man turn not, he will whet his sword;

He hath bent his bow, and made it ready;

13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death;

He maketh his arrows fiery shafts.

14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity;

Yea, he hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. 15 He hath made a pit, and digged

it,

2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established strength,

Because of thine adversaries,

That thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,

The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him?

And the son of man, that thou visitest him?

5 For thou hast made him but little lower than 6 God,

And crownest him with glory and honor.

6 Thou makest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands;

Thou hast put all things under his feet:

7 All sheep and oxen,

Yea, and the beasts of the field, 8 The birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,

Whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

9 O Jehovah, our Lord,

How excellent is thy name in all the earth!

he made.

16 His mischief shall return upon

Justice.

wicked;

judgment;

8 And he will judge the world in righteousness,

He will minister judgment to the 5 peoples in uprightness. 9 Jehovah also will be a high tower for the oppressed,

A high tower in times of trouble; 10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee; For thou, Jehovah, hast not forsaken them that seek thee. 11 Sing praises to Jehovah, who dwelleth in Zion:

Declare among the people his doings.

12 7 For he that maketh inquisition for blood remembereth them; He forgetteth not the cry of the 8 poor.

13 Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah;

Behold my affliction which I suf-
fer of them that hate me,
Thou that liftest me up from the
gates of death;

14 That I may show forth all thy praise,

In the gates of the daughter of
Zion

I will rejoice in thy 9 salvation. 15 The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: In the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

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known, judgment:

10 The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.

[Higgaion. Selah The wicked shall be turned back unto Sheol,

Even all the nations that forget

And 15 the covetous renounceth, yea, contemneth Jehovah. 4 The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, saith, He will not require it.

All his thoughts are, There is no
God.

5 His ways are 17 firm at all times; Thy judgments are far above out of his sight:

As for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.

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

To all generations I shall not be in adversity.

10 Or, He snareth the wicked

11 Or, meek

12 Or, He doth hotly pursue the poor

13 Heb. is set on fire.

14 Or, They are taken

15 Or, blesseth the covetous, but contemneth &c.

16 Or, revileth

17 Or, grievous

Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

8 He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages;

In the secret places doth he murder the innocent;

His eyes are privily set against the helpless.

To judge the fatherless and the oppressed,

That man who is of the earth may be terrible no more.

Jehovah a Refuge and Defence.

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

his covert;

In Jehovah do I take refuge :

How say ye to my soul, Flee 9 as a bird to your mountain; 2 For, lo, the wicked bend the bow, They make ready their arrow upon the string,

That they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart; 3 10 If the foundations be destroyed, What can the righteous do?

4 Jehovah is in his holy temple; Jehovah, his throne is in heaven; His eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.

5 Jehovah trieth the righteous; But the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth. 6 Upon the wicked he will rain