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PSAL M 8
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Go away, all you who do evil,
for the Lord has heard my weeping.
The Lord has heard my plea;
the Lord will answer my prayer.
May all my enemies be disgraced and
terrified.
May they suddenly turn back in shame.
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A psalm* of David, which he sang to the Lord
concerning Cush of the tribe of Benjamin.
I come to you for protection, O Lord
my God.
Save me from my persecutors—rescue me!
If you don’t, they will maul me like a lion,
tearing me to pieces with no one to
rescue me.
O Lord my God, if I have done wrong
or am guilty of injustice,
if I have betrayed a friend
or plundered my enemy without cause,
then let my enemies capture me.
Let them trample me into the ground
and drag my honor in the dust. Interlude
Arise, O Lord, in anger!
Stand up against the fury of my
enemies!
Wake up, my God, and bring justice!
Gather the nations before you.
Rule over them from on high.
The Lord judges the nations.
Declare me righteous, O Lord,
for I am innocent, O Most High!
End the evil of those who are wicked,
and defend the righteous.
For you look deep within the mind and
heart,
O righteous God.
God is my shield,
saving those whose hearts are true
and right.
God is an honest judge.
He is angry with the wicked every day.
If a person does not repent,
God* will sharpen his sword;
he will bend and string his bow.
He will prepare his deadly weapons
and shoot his flaming arrows.
The wicked conceive evil;
they are pregnant with trouble
and give birth to lies.
They dig a deep pit to trap others,
then fall into it themselves.
7:title Hebrew A shiggaion, probably indicating a musical
setting for the psalm. 7:12 Hebrew he. 8:title Hebrew
according to the gittith. 8:2 Greek version reads to give you
praise. Compare Matt 21:16. 8:4 Hebrew what is man that you
should think of him, / the son of man that you should care for
him? 8:5a Or Yet you made them only a little lower than the
angels; Hebrew reads Yet you made him [i.e., man] a little lower
than Elohim. 8:5b Hebrew him [i.e., man]; similarly in 8:6.
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The trouble they make for others backfires
on them.
The violence they plan falls on their
own heads.
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I will thank the Lord because he is just;
I will sing praise to the name of the Lord
Most High.
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For the choir director: A psalm of David, to be
accompanied by a stringed instrument.*
O Lord, our Lord, your majestic name fills
the earth!
Your glory is higher than the heavens.
You have taught children and infants
to tell of your strength,*
silencing your enemies
and all who oppose you.
When I look at the night sky and see the
work of your fingers—
the moon and the stars you set in place—
what are mere mortals that you should
think about them,
human beings that you should care
for them?*
Yet you made them only a little lower
than God*
and crowned them* with glory and honor.
You gave them charge of everything
you made,
putting all things under their authority—
the flocks and the herds
and all the wild animals,
• Healing
PS A LM 6:2
Can God heal us? He who made our
bodies can certainly repair them or
restore them. He can do the same with
mind or spirit. Prayer—and that’s what
this psalm is—is a powerful source of
healing because it puts us in touch with
the one who made us. Will God heal us?
He can and does, more often than we
know. But sometimes he allows us to go
unhealed. Is God unfair? We must reserve
that judgment until we see him face-toface and understand why he healed one
person but not another, why one person
died while another was spared, why one
person suffered for a lifetime from the
effects of abuse and another did not.
We don’t know all the mysteries of God.
But we do know from his Word that he
loves us enough to die for us and that
he promises we will all be restored to
wholeness in eternity.