Psalm 7 - English Standard VersionIn You Do I Take RefugeA Shiggaion[a] of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite.1 O Lord my God, in you do I take refuge; save me from all my pursuers and deliver me,2 lest like a lion they tear my soul apart, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.3 O Lord my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,4 if I have repaid my friend[b] with evil or plundered my enemy without cause,5 let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it, and let him trample my life to the ground and lay my glory in the dust. Selah6 Arise, O Lord, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.7 Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you; over it return on high.8 The Lord judges the peoples; judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.9 Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous—you who test the minds and hearts,[c] O righteous God!10 My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.11 God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day.12 If a man[d] does not repent, God[e] will whet his sword; he has bent and readied his bow;13 he has prepared for him his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts.14 Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies.15 He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole that he has made.16 His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own skull his violence descends.17 I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.FootnotesPsalm 7:1 Probably a musical or liturgical termPsalm 7:4 Hebrew the one at peace with mePsalm 7:9 Hebrew the hearts and kidneysPsalm 7:12 Hebrew hePsalm 7:12 Hebrew heText from: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%207&version=ESV

Psalm 6 - English Standard VersionO Lord, Deliver My LifeTo the choirmaster: with stringed instruments; according to The Sheminith.[a] A Psalm of David.1 O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath.2 Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing; heal me, O Lord, for my bones are troubled.3 My soul also is greatly troubled. But you, O Lord—how long?4 Turn, O Lord, deliver my life; save me for the sake of your steadfast love.5 For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who will give you praise?6 I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping.7 My eye wastes away because of grief; it grows weak because of all my foes.8 Depart from me, all you workers of evil, for the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping.9 The Lord has heard my plea; the Lord accepts my prayer.10 All my enemies shall be ashamed and greatly troubled; they shall turn back and be put to shame in a moment.FootnotesPsalm 6:1 Probably a musical or liturgical termText copied from: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%206&version=ESV

Psalm 5 - English Standard Version - Lead Me in Your RighteousnessTo the choirmaster: for the flutes.

A Psalm of David.

1 Give ear to my words, O Lord; consider my groaning.

2 Give attention to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to you do I pray.

3 O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you[a] and watch.

4 For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not dwell with you.

5 The boastful shall not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers.

6 You destroy those who speak lies; the Lord abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

7 But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love, will enter your house.I will bow down toward your holy temple in the fear of you.

8 Lead me, O Lord, in your righteousness because of my enemies; make your way straight before me.

9 For there is no truth in their mouth; their inmost self is destruction;their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.

10 Make them bear their guilt, O God; let them fall by their own counsels;because of the abundance of their transgressions cast them out, for they have rebelled against you.

11 But let all who take refuge in you rejoice; let them ever sing for joy,and spread your protection over them, that those who love your name may exult in you.

12 For you bless the righteous, O Lord; you cover him with favor as with a shield.

FootnotesPsalm 5:3 Or I direct my prayer to you

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