Psalms:2-9)
rsv@Psalms:2:1 @ Why do the nations conspire, and the peoples plot in vain?
rsv@Psalms:2:2 @ The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and his anointed, saying,
rsv@Psalms:2:3 @ "Let us burst their bonds asunder, and cast their cords from us."
rsv@Psalms:2:4 @ He who sits in the heavens laughs; the LORD has them in derision.
rsv@Psalms:2:5 @ Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and terrify them in his fury, saying,
rsv@Psalms:2:6 @ "I have set my king on Zion, my holy hill."
rsv@Psalms:2:7 @ I will tell of the decree of the LORD: He said to me, "You are my son, today I have begotten you.
rsv@Psalms:2:8 @ Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession.
rsv@Psalms:2:9 @ You shall break them with a rod of iron, and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel."
rsv@Psalms:2:10 @ Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth.
rsv@Psalms:2:11 @ Serve the LORD with fear, with trembling
rsv@Psalms:2:12 @ kiss his feet, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way; for his wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.
rsv@Psalms:3:1 @ A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.
rsv@Psalms:3:2 @ O LORD, how many are my foes! Many are rising against me;
rsv@Psalms:3:3 @ many are saying of me, there is no help for him in God. [Selah]
rsv@Psalms:3:4 @ But thou, O LORD, art a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head.
rsv@Psalms:3:5 @ I cry aloud to the LORD, and he answers me from his holy hill. [Selah]
rsv@Psalms:3:6 @ I lie down and sleep; I wake again, for the LORD sustains me.
rsv@Psalms:3:7 @ I am not afraid of ten thousands of people who have set themselves against me round about.
rsv@Psalms:3:8 @ Arise, O LORD! Deliver me, O my God! For thou dost smite all my enemies on the cheek, thou dost break the teeth of the wicked. [ (Psalms strkjv@3:9) Deliverance belongs to the LORD; thy blessing be upon thy people! [Selah] ]
rsv@Psalms:4:1 @ To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of David.
rsv@Psalms:4:2 @ Answer me when I call, O God of my right! Thou hast given me room when I was in distress. Be gracious to me, and hear my prayer.
rsv@Psalms:4:3 @ O men, how long shall my honor suffer shame? How long will you love vain words, and seek after lies? [Selah]
rsv@Psalms:4:4 @ But know that the LORD has set apart the godly for himself; the LORD hears when I call to him.
rsv@Psalms:4:5 @ Be angry, but sin not; commune with your own hearts on your beds, and be silent. [Selah]
rsv@Psalms:4:6 @ Offer right sacrifices, and put your trust in the LORD.
rsv@Psalms:4:7 @ There are many who say, "O that we might see some good! Lift up the light of thy countenance upon us, O LORD!"
rsv@Psalms:4:8 @ Thou hast put more joy in my heart than they have when their grain and wine abound. [ (Psalms strkjv@4:9) In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for thou alone, O LORD, makest me dwell in safety. ]
rsv@Psalms:5:1 @ To the choirmaster: for the flutes. A Psalm of David.
rsv@Psalms:5:2 @ Give ear to my words, O LORD; give heed to my groaning.
rsv@Psalms:5:3 @ Hearken to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to thee do I pray.
rsv@Psalms:5:4 @ O LORD, in the morning thou dost hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for thee, and watch.
rsv@Psalms:5:5 @ For thou art not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not sojourn with thee.
rsv@Psalms:5:6 @ The boastful may not stand before thy eyes; thou hatest all evildoers.
rsv@Psalms:5:7 @ Thou destroyest those who speak lies; the LORD abhors bloodthirsty and deceitful men.
rsv@Psalms:5:8 @ But I through the abundance of thy steadfast love will enter thy house, I will worship toward thy holy temple in the fear of thee.
rsv@Psalms:5:9 @ Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of my enemies; make thy way straight before me.
rsv@Psalms:5:10 @ For there is no truth in their mouth; their heart is destruction, their throat is an open sepulchre, they flatter with their tongue.
rsv@Psalms:5:11 @ Make them bear their guilt, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; because of their many transgressions cast them out, for they have rebelled against thee.
rsv@Psalms:5:12 @ But let all who take refuge in thee rejoice, let them ever sing for joy; and do thou defend them, that those who love thy name may exult in thee. [ (Psalms strkjv@5:13) For thou dost bless the righteous, O LORD; thou dost cover him with favor as with a shield. ]
rsv@Psalms:6:1 @ To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments; according to The Sheminith. A Psalm of David.
rsv@Psalms:6:2 @ O LORD, rebuke me not in thy anger, nor chasten me in thy wrath.
rsv@Psalms:6:3 @ Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am languishing; O LORD, heal me, for my bones are troubled.
rsv@Psalms:6:4 @ My soul also is sorely troubled. But thou, O LORD--how long?
rsv@Psalms:6:5 @ Turn, O LORD, save my life; deliver me for the sake of thy steadfast love.
rsv@Psalms:6:6 @ For in death there is no remembrance of thee; in Sheol who can give thee praise?
rsv@Psalms:6:7 @ I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping.
rsv@Psalms:6:8 @ My eye wastes away because of grief, it grows weak because of all my foes.
rsv@Psalms:6:9 @ Depart from me, all you workers of evil; for the LORD has heard the sound of my weeping.
rsv@Psalms:6:10 @ The LORD has heard my supplication; the LORD accepts my prayer. [ (Psalms strkjv@6:11) All my enemies shall be ashamed and sorely troubled; they shall turn back, and be put to shame in a moment. ]
rsv@Psalms:7:1 @ A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning Cush a Benjaminite.
rsv@Psalms:7:2 @ O LORD my God, in thee do I take refuge; save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me,
rsv@Psalms:7:3 @ lest like a lion they rend me, dragging me away, with none to rescue.
rsv@Psalms:7:4 @ O LORD my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,
rsv@Psalms:7:5 @ if I have requited my friend with evil or plundered my enemy without cause,
rsv@Psalms:7:6 @ let the enemy pursue me and overtake me, and let him trample my life to the ground, and lay my soul in the dust. [Selah]
rsv@Psalms:7:7 @ Arise, O LORD, in thy anger, lift thyself up against the fury of my enemies; awake, O my God; thou hast appointed a judgment.
rsv@Psalms:7:8 @ Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about thee; and over it take thy seat on high.
rsv@Psalms:7:9 @ The LORD judges the peoples; judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.
rsv@Psalms:7:10 @ O let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish thou the righteous, thou who triest the minds and hearts, thou righteous God.
rsv@Psalms:7:11 @ My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.
rsv@Psalms:7:12 @ God is a righteous judge, and a God who has indignation every day.
rsv@Psalms:7:13 @ If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and strung his bow;
rsv@Psalms:7:14 @ he has prepared his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts.
rsv@Psalms:7:15 @ Behold, the wicked man conceives evil, and is pregnant with mischief, and brings forth lies.
rsv@Psalms:7:16 @ He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole which he has made.
rsv@Psalms:7:17 @ His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own pate his violence descends. [ (Psalms strkjv@7:18) 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. ]
rsv@Psalms:8:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of David.
rsv@Psalms:8:2 @ O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is thy name in all the earth! Thou whose glory above the heavens is chanted
rsv@Psalms:8:3 @ by the mouth of babes and infants, thou hast founded a bulwark because of thy foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.
rsv@Psalms:8:4 @ When I look at thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast established;
rsv@Psalms:8:5 @ what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou dost care for him?
rsv@Psalms:8:6 @ Yet thou hast made him little less than God, and dost crown him with glory and honor.
rsv@Psalms:8:7 @ Thou hast given him dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet,
rsv@Psalms:8:8 @ all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field,
rsv@Psalms:8:9 @ the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the sea. [ (Psalms strkjv@8:10) O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is thy name in all the earth! ]
rsv@Psalms:9:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben. A Psalm of David.
rsv@Psalms:9:2 @ I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart; I will tell of all thy wonderful deeds.
rsv@Psalms:9:3 @ I will be glad and exult in thee, I will sing praise to thy name, O Most High.
rsv@Psalms:9:4 @ When my enemies turned back, they stumbled and perished before thee.
rsv@Psalms:9:5 @ For thou hast maintained my just cause; thou hast sat on the throne giving righteous judgment.
rsv@Psalms:9:6 @ Thou hast rebuked the nations, thou hast destroyed the wicked; thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.
rsv@Psalms:9:7 @ The enemy have vanished in everlasting ruins; their cities thou hast rooted out; the very memory of them has perished.
rsv@Psalms:9:8 @ But the LORD sits enthroned for ever, he has established his throne for judgment;
rsv@Psalms:9:9 @ and he judges the world with righteousness, he judges the peoples with equity.
rsv@Psalms:9:10 @ The LORD is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
rsv@Psalms:9:11 @ And those who know thy name put their trust in thee, for thou, O LORD, hast not forsaken those who seek thee.
rsv@Psalms:9:12 @ Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion! Tell among the peoples his deeds!
rsv@Psalms:9:13 @ For he who avenges blood is mindful of them; he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.
rsv@Psalms:9:14 @ Be gracious to me, O LORD! Behold what I suffer from those who hate me, O thou who liftest me up from the gates of death,
rsv@Psalms:9:15 @ that I may recount all thy praises, that in the gates of the daughter of Zion I may rejoice in thy deliverance.
rsv@Psalms:9:16 @ The nations have sunk in the pit which they made; in the net which they hid has their own foot been caught.
rsv@Psalms:9:17 @ The LORD has made himself known, he has executed judgment; the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. [Higgaion. Selah]
rsv@Psalms:9:18 @ The wicked shall depart to Sheol, all the nations that forget God.
rsv@Psalms:9:19 @ For the needy shall not always be forgotten, and the hope of the poor shall not perish for ever.
rsv@Psalms:9:20 @ Arise, O LORD! Let not man prevail; let the nations be judged before thee! [ (Psalms strkjv@9:21) Put them in fear, O LORD! Let the nations know that they are but men! [Selah] ]
rsv@Psalms:10:1 @ Why dost thou stand afar off, O LORD? Why dost thou hide thyself in times of trouble?
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