encompasses you,
ascend on high above them.
8. The Lord will judge the peoples.
Judge me O Lord according to my righteousness;
and according to my innocence
be for me.
9. Let the wickedness of sinners be brought to an end.
You will indeed direct the righteous,
O God who searches the hearts and innermost being. . . .
14. Behold my enemy has travailed with injustice;
has conceived trouble and given birth to iniquity.
15. He has dug a pit and covered it;
into the trench which he dug,
he will fall.
16. His mischief will return upon his own head;
on his forehead his injustice will fall.
17. Because of the Lord’s righteousness
I will give thanks;
I will sing praises to the name of the Lord Most High.
Psalm 8
1. O Lord, our Lord, how wonderful is your name in all the earth;
for your magnificence is exalted above the heavens!
2. Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings you have perfected praise,
on account of your enemies, so as to destroy the enemy and avenger.
3. When I survey the heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars which you have established,
4. what is a human being that you should be mindful of him?
or a mere mortal that you should
visit him?
5. You made him a little lower than the angels,
with glory and honor you crowned him,
6. and set him over the work of your hands.
You have put all things under his feet:
7. all flocks and herds,
even beasts of the field,
8. birds of the air and fishes of the sea,
all creatures traversing the salty paths.
9. O Lord, our Lord, how wonderful is your name in all the earth!
Psalm 9
1. I will praise you, O Lord, with my whole heart,
I will recount all your marvelous deeds.
2. I will be glad and rejoice in you;
to your name I will sing, O Most High.
3. When my enemies are turned back,
they shall grow faint and perish in your presence,
4. for you have upheld my cause
and my right.
You sat upon the throne,
O Righteous Judge.
5. You have rebuked the nations,
and the ungodly have perished.
You have blotted out their name forever,
even for ages and ages. . . .
7. But the Lord endures forever,
and prepares his throne for judgment;
8. This one will judge the world in righteousness,
and will pass judgment with rectitude.
9. The Lord has been a refuge for the distressed,
a propitious helper in time of affliction.
10. Let those who know your name place their hope in you,
for you, O Lord, have not failed those who fervently seek you.
Psalm 11
1. Save me, O Lord, for the godly one has failed,
for truths are scarce among the children of the earth.
2. They spoke empty words, one to another, neighbor to neighbor,
their lips are deceitful; they have spoken with a duplicitous heart.
3. May the Lord destroy all lying lips,
and the tongue which wags with wonderful words!
4. those who boast: “We will magnify our own tongue,
our lips are our own, who is the Lord
to us?”
5. “Because of the oppression of
the poor,
because of the groans of the needy,
now will I arise,” declares the Lord.
“I will set them in safety and speak about it boldly.”
6. The utterances of the Lord are pure—
as silver refined in the fire,
tested in the fiery furnace,
purified seven times over.
7. You, O Lord, will keep us and preserve us,
from this generation and forever more.
8. The wicked walk round and round
in circles,
in your greatness you have observed carefully the children of the earth.
Psalm 12
1. How long, O Lord will you forget me, forever?
How long will you turn your face away from me?
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