Psalm 7-8

Psalm 7

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.

[2]רָדַף = chase after. Psalm 7:1, 5; 18:37; 23:6; 31:15; 34:14; 35:3, 6; 38:20.

[3]הִנֵּה = notice. Psalm 7:14; 11:2; 33:18; 37:36; 39:5; 40:7, 9.

[4]בּוֹר = hole. Psalm 7:15; 28:1; 30:3; 40:2.

[5]subscription: For the choir director; on the Gittith.

[6]superscription: A Psalm of David.

[7]הוֹד = majesty. Psalm 8:1; 21:5.

[8] אֱנוֹשׁ = mortal humankind. (Psalm 8:4; 9:19, 20; 10:18; 55:13; 56:1; 66:12; 73:5; 90:3; 103:15; 104:15; 144:3).

[9]subscription: For the choir director; on Muth-labben (“Death to the Son”).

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Day: October 18, 2026

Psalm 7-8

Psalm 7-8

Psalm 7

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