In You Do I Take Refuge

A lShiggaion1 of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite.

¹O Lord my God, in you do I mtake refuge;

nsave me from all my pursuers and deliver me,

²lest like oa lion they tear my soul apart,

rending it in pieces, with pnone to deliver.

³O Lord my God, qif I have done this,

if there is rwrong in my hands,

⁴if I have repaid smy friend2 with evil

or tplundered my enemy without cause,

⁵let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it,

and let him utrample my life to the ground

and lay my glory in the dust. Selah

⁶vArise, O Lord, in your anger;

wlift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;

xawake for me; you have appointed a judgment.

⁷Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you;

over it return on high.

⁸The Lord yjudges the peoples;

zjudge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness

and according to the integrity that is in me.

⁹Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end,

and may you establish the righteous—

you who atest bthe minds and hearts,3

O righteous God!

¹⁰My shield is cwith God,

who saves dthe upright in heart.

¹¹God is ea righteous judge,

and a God who feels findignation every day.

¹²If a man4 does not repent, God5 will gwhet his sword;

he has hbent and ireadied his bow;

¹³he has prepared for him his deadly weapons,

making his jarrows kfiery shafts.

¹⁴Behold, the wicked man lconceives evil

and is lpregnant with mischief

and gives birth to lies.

¹⁵He makes ma pit, digging it out,

and falls into the hole that he has made.

¹⁶His nmischief returns upon his own head,

and on his own skull his violence descends.

¹⁷I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness,

and I will osing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.

How Majestic Is Your Name

To the choirmaster: according to The pGittith.1 A Psalm of David.

¹O Lord, our Lord,

how majestic is your qname in all the earth!

You have set your rglory above the heavens.

²sOut of the mouth of babies and infants,

you have established tstrength because of your foes,

to still uthe enemy and the avenger.

³When I vlook at your heavens, the work of your wfingers,

the moon and the stars, xwhich you have set in place,

⁴ywhat is man that you are zmindful of him,

and athe son of man that you bcare for him?

⁵Yet you have made him a little lower than cthe heavenly beings2

and crowned him with dglory and honor.

⁶You have given him edominion over the works of your hands;

fyou have put all things under his feet,

⁷all sheep and oxen,

and also the beasts of the field,

⁸the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,

whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

⁹O Lord, our Lord,

how majestic is your name in all the earth!