Psalm 12:1[1] Help, Yahveh, because there is no faithful one left; the loyal ones have vanished from the children of Adam.
Psalm 12:2 They say trivial things[2] to one another; they speak with flattering lips and deceptive hearts.
Psalm 12:3 May Yahveh cut off all flattering lips and the tongue that only says great things.
Psalm 12:4 They say, “Through our tongues we have power; our lips are our own – who can be our master? “
Psalm 12:5 “Because of the disaster of the needy and the groaning of the poor, I will now rise,” says Yahveh. “I will provide rescue[3] for the one who longs for it.”
Psalm 12:6 The words of Yahveh are pure words, like silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.
Psalm 12:7 You, Yahveh, will guard us; you will protect us from this generation permanently.
Psalm 12:8 The wicked ones keep walking all around when the children of Adam still promote vileness.[4]
Psalm 11:1[1] I have taken refuge in Yahveh. How can you say to my throat, “Escape to the mountains like a bird!
Psalm 11:2 “Because notice, the wicked ones are stringing bows; they put their arrows on bowstrings to shoot from the shadows at the ones whose hearts are upright.
Psalm 11:3 “When the foundations we depend on are destroyed, what can the righteous ones do? “
Psalm 11:4 Yahveh is in his holy temple; Yahveh –his throne is in the sky. His eyes are watching; his gaze is examining the children of Adam.
Psalm 11:5 Yahveh examines the righteous, but his throat hates the wicked and those who love violence.
Psalm 11:6 Let him rain burning coals and sulfur on the wicked ones; let a scorching wind be the portion in their cup.
Psalm 11:7 Because Yahveh is righteous; he loves righteous deeds. The upright will see his face.[2]
Psalm 10:1 Yahveh, why are you standing so far away? Why are you hiding in hard times?
Psalm 10:2 Arrogantly, the wicked ones stalk their victims; let them be caught in the traps they have dreamed up.
Psalm 10:3 Because the wicked one brags about his throat’s lusts; the greedy one ‘blesses’ while despising Yahveh.
Psalm 10:4 While he is scheming, the wicked person arrogantly thinks, “There’s no accountability, since there’s no God.”
Psalm 10:5 The roads he takes are always safe; your high judgments do not affect him; he scoffs at all his enemies.
Psalm 10:6 He says to himself, “I will never be moved — from generation to generation without disaster.”
Psalm 10:7 Cursing, lying, and violence fill his mouth; trouble and malice readily come out of his tongue.
Psalm 10:8 He waits in ambush near settlements; he kills the innocent in secret places. His eyes pursue the helpless;
Psalm 10:9 He hides in secret like a lion in a bush. He hides to seize a victim, who he seizes and drags into his net. Psalm 10:10 So he is oppressed and smashed up. Helpless people die because of the wicked one’s strength.
Psalm 10:11 He says to himself, “God has forgotten; he has hidden his face and will not see perpetually.”
Psalm 10:12 Rise, Yahveh God! Lift your hand. Do not forget the miserable ones.
Psalm 10:13 Why has the wicked person despised God? He says to himself, “You will not follow it up.”
Psalm 10:14 But you yourself have been watching trouble and grief, observing it in order to take the matter into your hands. The helpless one is entrusting himself to you; you are a helper of the fatherless.
Psalm 10:15 Break the arm of the wicked, evil person, until you look for his wickedness, but find it no more.
Psalm 10:16 Yahveh is King permanently and continually; the nations will be destroyed from his land.
Psalm 10:17 Yahveh, you have heard what the humble are asking; you will strengthen their hearts. You will listen carefully,
Psalm 10:18 defending the fatherless and the exploited so that mortal humankind from the ground may terrorize them no more.[1]
Psalm 9:1[1] I will thank Yahveh with all my heart; I will make known all your fabulous creations.
Psalm 9:2 I will be happy and brag about you; I will sing about your name, Most High.
Psalm 9:3 When my enemies retreat, they trip and are destroyed in your presence.
Psalm 9:4 Because you have upheld my just cause; you are seated on your throne as a judge with integrity.
Psalm 9:5 You have rebuked the nations: You have destroyed the wicked; you have erased their name permanently and continually.[2]
Psalm 9:6 The enemy has come to uninterrupted[3] ruin. You have uprooted the cities, and even the memory of them has perished.
Psalm 9:7 But Yahveh sits enthroned permanently; he has established his throne for judgment.
Psalm 9:8 And he judges the world with integrity; he passes judgment on the nations with fairness.
Psalm 9:9 Yahveh is a refuge for the persecuted, a refuge in times of trouble.
Psalm 9:10 Those who know your name have confidence in you because you have not abandoned those who seek you, Yahveh.
Psalm 9:11 Sing to Yahveh, who dwells in Zion; proclaim his deeds among the nations.
Psalm 9:12 Because the one who holds people accountable for bloodshed remembers them; he does not forget the cry of the oppressed.
Psalm 9:13 Show grace to me, Yahveh; consider my trouble at the hands of those who hate me. Lift me up from the gates of death, Psalm 9:14 so that I may declare all your praises. I will celebrate in your rescue within the gates of Daughter Zion.
Psalm 9:15 The nations have fallen into the trap they manufactured; their foot is caught in the net they have hidden.
Psalm 9:16 Yahveh has made himself known; he has brought about justice, trapping the wicked by the work of their hands. Higgaion. (Selah).
Psalm 9:17 The wicked ones will die and go to Sheol – all the nations that forget God.
Psalm 9:18 Because the needy will not be forgotten perpetually; the hope of the oppressed will not perish continually.
Psalm 9:19 Rise, Yahveh! Do not allow mortal humankind to prevail; let the nations be judged in your presence.
Psalm 9:20 Put terror in them, Yahveh; let the nations know they are mortal humankind. (Selah).
Psalm 7:1[1] Yahveh my God, I seek safety in you; help me because of all those who chase after me[2] and deliver me.
Psalm 7:2 They are going to rip my throat apart like a lion, tearing me apart with no one to rescue me.
Psalm 7:3 Yahveh, my God, if I have done this – if there is a crime on my hands,
Psalm 7:4 if I have done harm to one at peace with me or even took advantage of my enemy without cause,
Psalm 7:5 may an enemy chase after and overtake my throat; may he trample me to the ground and leave my glory in the dirt. (Selah).
Psalm 7:6 Get up angrily, Yahveh; lift yourself against the burning anger of my enemies; awake for me; you have destined a judgment.
Psalm 7:7 Cause the assembly of peoples to gather around you; take your exalted seat presiding over it.
Psalm 7:8 Yahveh who judges the peoples — defend me, Yahveh, based on my righteousness and my integrity.
Psalm 7:9 Cause the evil of the wicked to come to an end, but make the righteous permanent. The one who tests the thoughts and emotions is a righteous God.
Psalm 7:10 My shield is from God, who saves those who are upright in heart.
Psalm 7:11 God is a righteous judge and a God who demonstrates his wrath every day.
Psalm 7:12 If anyone will not repent, he will sharpen his sword; he has strung his bow and made it ready.
Psalm 7:13 He has readied his deadly weapons; he tips his arrows with fire.
Psalm 7:14 Notice,[3] the wicked one is pregnant with evil, conceives hardship, and gives birth to a lie.
Psalm 7:15 He dug a hole[4] and hollowed it out, but fell into the pit he had made.
Psalm 7:16 The hardship he plans for others comes back on his own head; his own violence comes down on top of his head.
Psalm 7:17 I will thank Yahveh for his righteousness; I will sing about the name of Yahveh Most High.[5]
Psalm 8
Psalm 8:1[6] Yahveh, our Yahveh, how magnificent is your name throughout the land! You have covered the skies with your majesty.[7]
Psalm 8:2 From the mouths of infants and nursing babies, you have established a stronghold on account of your adversaries in order to silence the enemy and the vengeful one.
Psalm 8:3 When I gaze into your skies, the work of your fingers, the moon, and the stars, which you set in place,
Psalm 8:4 what is mortal humankind[8] that you would think about him, a child of Adam that you look after him?
Psalm 8:5 You made him a little less than a god and crowned him with glory and splendor.
Psalm 8:6 You made him ruler over the creations of your hands; you put everything under his feet:
Psalm 8:7 all the sheep and oxen, as well as the animals in the wild,
Psalm 8:8 the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea that pass through the currents of the seas.
Psalm 8:9 Yahveh, our Yahveh, how magnificent is your name throughout the land.[9]
[1]superscription: A Shiggaion [Dithyrambic rhythm; or wild passionate song] of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning Cush, a Benjamite.
