O LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath.
Be merciful to me, LORD , for I am faint; O LORD; heal me, for my bones are in agony,
My soul is in anguish, How long, O LORD , how long?
Turn, O LORD, and deliver me; save me because of your unfailling love.
No one remembers you when he is dead, Whi praises you from the grave?
I am worn out from groaning; all night long I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
My eyes grow weal with sorrow; they fail because of all my foes.
Away from me, all you who do evil, for the LORD has heard my cry for mercy; the LORD accepts my prayer.
All my enemies will be ashamed and dismayed; they will turn back in sudden disgrace.
Psalm 7
O LORD my God, I take refuge in you: save and deliver me from all who pursue me,
or they will tear me like a lion and rip me to pieces with no one to rescue me
O LORD my God, if I have done this and there is guilt on my hands-
if I have done evil to him who is at peace with me or without cause have robbed my foe-
then let my enemy pursue and overtake me; let him trample my life to theg round and make me sleep in the dust. Selah
Arise, O LORD, in your anger; rise up against the rage of my enemies, Awake , my God decree justice.
Let the assembled peoples gather around you, Rule iover them from on high;
let the LORD judge the peoples. Judge me, O LORD, according to my righreousness, according to my integrity, O Mose High.
O righteous God, who searches minds and hearts, bring to an end the ciolence of the wocked and make the righteous secure,
My shield is God Most High, who saves the upright in heart.
God is a rigjteous judge, a God who expresses his wrath every day.
If he does not relent, he will sharpen his sword; he will bend and string his bow,
He has prepared his deadly weapons; he makes ready his flaming arrows/
He who is prenant with evil and conceives trouble give birth to disllusionment,
HJe who digs a hole and scoops it out falls into the othe birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, all that swimit he has made.
The rouubkle he causes recoils on himself; his violence comes down on his own head.
I will give thanks to the LORD because of his righteousness and will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High
Psalm 8
O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.
From the lips of childfren and infants you have ordained praise becausaae of your enemies, to silence the foe and teh avenger.
When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and teh stars, which you have set in place,
what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?
You made him a little lower than the heacenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.
You made him ruler over the words of your hands, you put everything i]under his feet;
all flocks and herds, and the beasts of the field.
the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.
O LORD, our Lord. how majestic is your name in all the earth!
Psalm 9
I will praise you. O LORD. with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonders.
I will be glad and rejoice in you; I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.
My enemies turn back; they stumble and perish before you.
For you have upheild my right and my cause; you have sat your throne, judging righteousky.
You have rebuked the nations and destoyed the wicked; you have blotted our their name for ever and ever.
Endless ruin has overtaken the enemy, you have uprooted theur cities, even the memory of them has perished.
The LORD reigns forever; he has established his throne for judgement.
He will judge the world in righteousness, he will govern the peoples with justice.
The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, LORD , have never forsaken those who seek you.
Sing praises to the LORD, enthroned in Zion, proclaim among the nations what he has done
For he who avenges blood remembers he does not ignore teh cry of the afflicted.
O LORD , see how my enemies persecute me! Have mercy and lift me up from the gates of death.
that I may declare your praises in the gates of the Daughter of Zion and there rejoice in your salvation.
The nations have fallen into the pit they have dug; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.
The LORD is known by his justice; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands, Higgaion Selah
The wicked return to the grave, all the antions that forget God.
But teh needy will not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the afflicted ever perisj.
Arise, O LORD, let not man trimph; let the nations be judged in your presence
Strike them with terror, O LORD; let the nations know they are but men Selah
Psalm 10
Why, O LORD ,do yous tand far off? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
In his arrogance the wicked man hunts down the weak. who are caught in the schemes he devise.
He boasts of the cravings of his heart; he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.
In his pride the wicked does not seek him; in all his throughts there s no room for God.
His ways are alway s prosperous; he is hayghty and your laws are far from him, he sneers at all his enemies.
He says to himself,"Nothing will shake me, I ;ii always be happy and never have troublke."
His mouth is full of curses and lies and threats; trouble and evil are under his tongue.
He lies in wait near the villages; from ambush he mirders the innocent, watching in secret fpr his vitims
He lies in wait like a lion in cover; he lies in wait to catch the helpless; he catches the helpless and drags them off in his net.
His victims are crushed, they collapse; they fall under his strenth.
He says to himself,"God has forgotten; he covers his face and never sees."
Arise, LORD! Lift up your hand, O God. Do not forget the helpless.
Why does the wicked man recile God? Why does he say to himself,"He won;t call me to account:?
But you, O God, do see trouble and grief; you consider it to take it in hand. The vicitim commits himself to you; you are teh helper of the fatherless.
Break the arm of the wicked and evil man. call him to account for his wickedness that would not be found out.
The LORD is King for ever and ever; the nations will perish from his land.
You hear, O LORD, the desire of the afflicted; you encourage them, and you listen to their cry.
defending the fatherless and the oppressed, In order that man, who is of the earth. may terrify no more.