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Psalms 5
Chapter 5
Psalm 5
The Refuge of the Righteous
For the choir director: with the flutes. A Davidic psalm.
1 Listen to my words,
Lord
;
consider my sighing.(a)
2 Pay attention to the sound of my cry,(b)
my King and my God,(c)
for I pray to You.
3 At daybreak,(d)
Lord
, You hear my voice;
at daybreak I plead my case to You(e) and watch expectantly.
4 For You are not a God who delights in wickedness;
evil cannot dwell with You.(f)
5 The boastful cannot stand in Your presence;(g)
You hate all evildoers.(h)
6 You destroy those who tell lies;(i)
the
Lord
abhors a man of bloodshed and treachery.(j)
7 But I enter Your house
by the abundance of Your faithful love;(k)
I bow down toward Your holy temple
in reverential awe of You.(l)
8
Lord
, lead me in Your righteousness(m)
because of my adversaries;[a]
make Your way straight before me.(n)
9 For there is nothing reliable in what they say;[b](o)
destruction is within them;
their throat is an open grave;
they flatter with their tongues.(p)
10 Punish them, God;
let them fall by their own schemes.(q)
Drive them out(r) because of their many crimes,
for they rebel against You.(s)
11 But let all who take refuge in You rejoice;(t)
let them shout for joy forever.
May You shelter them,(u)
and may those who love Your name boast about You.(v)
12 For You,
Lord
, bless the righteous one;
You surround him with favor like a shield.(w)
Psalms 38
Chapter 38
Psalm 38
Prayer of a Suffering Sinner
A Davidic psalm for remembrance.(a)
1
Lord
, do not punish me in Your anger
or discipline me in Your wrath.(b)
2 For Your arrows have sunk into me,
and Your hand has pressed down on me.(c)
3 There is no health in my body
because of Your indignation;
there is no strength[a] in my bones
because of my sin.(d)
4 For my sins have flooded over my head;
they are a burden too heavy for me to bear.(e)
5 My wounds are foul and festering
because of my foolishness.(f)
6 I am bent over and brought low;
all day long I go around in mourning.(g)
7 For my loins are full of burning pain,
and there is no health in my body.(h)
8 I am faint and severely crushed;
I groan because of the anguish of my heart.(i)
9 Lord, my every desire is known to[b] You;
my sighing is not hidden from You.(j)
10 My heart races, my strength leaves me,
and even the light of my eyes has faded.[c](k)
11 My loved ones and friends stand back from my affliction,
and my relatives stand at a distance.(l)
12 Those who seek my life set traps,
and those who want to harm me threaten to destroy me;
they plot treachery all day long.(m)
13 I am like a deaf person; I do not hear.
I am like a speechless person
who does not open his mouth.(n)
14 I am like a man who does not hear
and has no arguments in his mouth.(o)
15 I put my hope in You,
Lord
;
You will answer, Lord my God.(p)
16 For I said, "Don't let them rejoice over me—
those who are arrogant toward me when I stumble."(q)
17 For I am about to fall,
and my pain is constantly with me.(r)
18 So I confess my guilt;
I am anxious because of my sin.(s)
19 But my enemies are vigorous and powerful;[d]
many hate me for no reason.(t)
20 Those who repay evil for good
attack me for pursuing good.(u)
21
Lord
, do not abandon me;
my God, do not be far from me.(v)
22 Hurry to help me,
Lord, my Savior.(w)
Psalms 41-42
Chapter 41
Psalm 41
Victory in Spite of Betrayal
For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.
1 Happy is one who cares for the poor;
the
Lord
will save him in a day of adversity.(a)
2 The
Lord
will keep him and preserve him;
he will be blessed in the land.(b)
You will not give him over to the desire of his enemies.(c)
3 The
Lord
will sustain him on his sickbed;
You will heal him on the bed where he lies.(d)
4 I said, "
Lord
, be gracious to me;
heal me, for I have sinned against You."(e)
5 My enemies speak maliciously about me:
"When will he die and be forgotten?"(f)
6 When one of them comes to visit, he speaks deceitfully;
he stores up evil in his heart;
he goes out and talks.(g)
7 All who hate me whisper together about me;
they plan to harm me.(h)
8 "Lethal poison has been poured into him,
and he won't rise again from where he lies!"(i)
9 Even my friend[a] in whom I trusted,
one who ate my bread,
has raised his heel against me.(j)
10 But You,
Lord
, be gracious to me and raise me up;
then I will repay them.(k)
11 By this I know that You delight in me:(l)
my enemy does not shout in triumph over me.(m)
12 You supported me because of my integrity(n)
and set me in Your presence forever.(o)
13 May Yahweh, the God of Israel, be praised
from everlasting to everlasting.
Amen and amen.(p)
Chapter 42
Psalm 42
Longing for God
For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah.
1 As a deer longs for streams of water,
so I long for You, God.(a)
2 I thirst for God, the living God.
When can I come and appear before God?(b)
3 My tears have been my food day and night,
while all day long people say to me,
"Where is your God?"(c)
4 I remember this as I pour out my heart:(d)
how I walked with many,
leading the festive procession to the house of God,
with joyful and thankful shouts.(e)
5 Why am I so depressed?
Why this turmoil within me?
Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him,
my Savior and my God.(f)
6 I[a] am deeply depressed;
therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan
and the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.(g)
7 Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls;
all Your breakers and Your billows have swept over me.(h)
8 The
Lord
will send His faithful love by day;(i)
His song will be with me in the night—
a prayer to the God of my life.
9 I will say to God, my rock,(j)
"Why have You forgotten me?
Why must I go about in sorrow
because of the enemy's oppression?"(k)
10 My adversaries taunt me,
as if crushing my bones,
while all day long they say to me,
"Where is your God?"(l)
11 Why am I so depressed?
Why this turmoil within me?
Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him,
my Savior and my God.(m)
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