Psalms 6-8

Psalm 6

¹For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments, set to the Sheminith. A Psalm of David. O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

²Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am withered away: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.

³My soul also is sore vexed: and thou, O LORD, how long?

⁴Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: save me for thy lovingkindness’ sake.

⁵For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in Sheol who shall give thee thanks?

⁶I am weary with my groaning; every night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

⁷Mine eye wasteth away because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine adversaries.

⁸Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.

⁹The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.

¹⁰All mine enemies shall be ashamed and sore vexed: they shall turn back, they shall be ashamed suddenly.

Psalm 7

¹Shiggaion of David, which he sang unto the LORD; concerning the words of Cush a Benjamite. O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that pursue me, and deliver me:

²Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

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

⁴If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause was mine adversary:)

⁵Let 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

⁶Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself against the rage of mine adversaries: and awake for me; thou hast commanded judgment.

⁷And let the congregation of the peoples compass thee about: and over them return thou on high.

⁸The LORD ministereth judgment to the peoples: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and to mine integrity that is in me.

⁹Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish thou the righteous: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.

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

¹¹God is a righteous judge, yea, a God that hath indignation every day.

¹²If a man turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

¹³He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he maketh his arrows fiery shafts.

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

¹⁵He hath made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.

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

¹⁷I will give thanks unto the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.

Psalm 8

¹For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of David. O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory upon the heavens.

²Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established strength, because of thine adversaries, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

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

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

⁵For thou hast made him but little lower than God, and crownest him with glory and honour.

⁶Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

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

⁸The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

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