Psalms 1-10 (Translated)

## Contents

* 1 Psalm 1
* 2 Psalm 2
* 3 Psalm 3
* 4 Psalm 4
* 5 Psalm 5
* 6 Psalm 6
* 7 Psalm 7
* 8 Psalm 8
* 9 Psalm 9
* 10 Psalm 10

## Psalm 1[edit]

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1  | Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.  | Blessed is he who neither walks with atheists, nor stands with sinners, nor sits with the hateful.  |
2  | But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.  | But his joy is in the teachings by the LORD; and in his wisdom does he meditate day and night.  | "law" has a different connotation today, and "teachings" is closer to the obvious meaning
3  | And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.  | And he will be like a fruit-bearing tree planted by a river; he will not lose leaves and will succeed in whatever he does.  |
4  | The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.  | Atheists are not like this but like chaff blown away by wind.  |
5  | Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.  | Therefore, atheists will not withstand God's judgment, nor will sinners congregate with the righteous.  |
6  | For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.  | For the LORD loves the way of the righteous: but atheistic ways will perish.  |

## Psalm 2[edit]

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1  | Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?  |  |
2  | The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,  |  |
3  | Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.  |  |
4  | He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.  |  |
5  | Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.  |  |
6  | Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.  |  |
7  | I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.  |  |
8  | Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.  |  |
9  | Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.  |  |
10  | Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.  |  |
11  | Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.  |  |
12  | Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.  |  |

## Psalm 3[edit]

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1  | LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.  |  |
2  | Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.  |  |
3  | But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.  |  |
4  | I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.  |  |
5  | I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.  |  |
6  | I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.  |  |
7  | Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.  |  |
8  | Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah.  |  |

## Psalm 4[edit]

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1  | Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.  |  |
2  | O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.  |  |
3  | But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.  |  |
4  | Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.  |  |
5  | Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.  |  |
6  | There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.  |  |
7  | Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.  |  |
8  | I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.  |  |

## Psalm 5[edit]

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1  | Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.  |  |
2  | Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray.  |  |
3  | My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.  |  |
4  | For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.  |  |
5  | The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.  |  |
6  | Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.  |  |
7  | But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.  |  |
8  | Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.  |  |
9  | For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.  |  |
10  | Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.  |  |
11  | But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.  |  |
12  | For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.  |  |

## Psalm 6[edit]

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1  | O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.  |  |
2  | Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.  |  |
3  | My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?  |  |
4  | Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake.  |  |
5  | For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?  |  |
6  | I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.  |  |
7  | Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.  |  |
8  | Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.  |  |
9  | The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.  |  |
10  | Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return and be ashamed suddenly.  |  |

## Psalm 7[edit]

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1  | O Lord my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:  |  |
2  | Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.  |  |
3  | O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;  |  |
4  | If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)  |  |
5  | Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.  |  |
6  | Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.  |  |
7  | So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high.  |  |
8  | The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.  |  |
9  | Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.  |  |
10  | My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.  |  |
11  | God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.  |  |
12  | If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.  |  |
13  | He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.  |  |
14  | Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.  |  |
15  | He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.  |  |
16  | His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.  |  |
17  | I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.  |  |

## Psalm 8[edit]

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1  | O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.  |  |
2  | Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.  |  |
3  | When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;  |  |
4  | What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?  |  |
5  | For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.  |  |
6  | Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:  |  |
7  | All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;  |  |
8  | The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.  |  |
9  | O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!  |  |

## Psalm 9[edit]

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1  | I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.  |  |
2  | I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.  |  |
3  | When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.  |  |
4  | For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.  |  |
5  | Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.  |  |
6  | O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.  |  |
7  | But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.  |  |
8  | And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.  |  |
9  | The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.  |  |
10  | And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.  |  |
11  | Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.  |  |
12  | When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.  |  |
13  | Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:  |  |
14  | That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.  |  |
15  | The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.  |  |
16  | The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.  |  |
17  | The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.  |  |
18  | For the needy shall not always be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.  |  |
19  | Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.  |  |
20  | Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.  |  |

## Psalm 10[edit]

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1  | Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?  |  |
2  | The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.  |  |
3  | For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.  |  |
4  | The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.  |  |
5  | His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.  |  |
6  | He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.  |  |
7  | His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.  |  |
8  | He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.  |  |
9  | He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.  |  |
10  | He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.  |  |
11  | He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.  |  |
12  | Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.  |  |
13  | Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.  |  |
14  | Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.  |  |
15  | Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.  |  |
16  | The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.  |  |
17  | LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:  |  |
18  | To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.  |  |