Psalm 5

¹⁴And this is the confidence that we have before Him: If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.

¹⁵And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we already possess what we have asked of Him.

²Hear my prayer, O God; listen to the words of my mouth.

¹⁴May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in Your sight, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.

¹²For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

¹For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Maskil of David. Listen to my prayer, O God, and do not ignore my plea.

²Attend to me and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and distraught

¹For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Hear, O God, my voice of complaint; preserve my life from dread of the enemy.

²O You who listen to prayer, all people will come to You.

⁴To the Lord I cry aloud, and He answers me from His holy mountain. Selah

²²For the Lord is our Judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our King. It is He who will save us.

¹A Psalm of praise. Of David. I will exalt You, my God and King; I will bless Your name forever and ever.

³Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she places her young near Your altars, O Lord of Hosts, my King and my God.

¹The Lord reigns; let the nations tremble! He is enthroned above the cherubim; let the earth quake!

²Great is the Lord in Zion; He is exalted above all the peoples.

¹⁴⁷I rise before dawn and cry for help; in Your word I have put my hope.

¹³But to You, O Lord, I cry for help; in the morning my prayer comes before You.

³⁵Early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up and went out to a solitary place to pray.

⁶My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning—more than watchmen wait for the morning.

¹⁷Morning, noon, and night, I cry out in distress, and He hears my voice.

⁹My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. For when Your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.

⁵The Lord tests the righteous and the wicked; His soul hates the lover of violence.

¹⁴Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.

¹⁷You have wearied the Lord with your words; yet you ask, “How have we wearied Him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good in the sight of the Lord, and in them He delights,” or, “Where is the God of justice?”

²⁷But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

²¹You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.

⁷No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no one who tells lies shall stand in my presence.

⁵The Lord tests the righteous and the wicked; His soul hates the lover of violence.

⁵Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

¹⁵All their evil appears at Gilgal, for there I hated them. I will drive them from My house for the wickedness of their deeds. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.

¹⁶There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to Him:

¹⁷haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

²³You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.

⁴¹Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

²³But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.

⁸But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”

²¹For behold, the Lord is coming out of His dwelling to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth will reveal her bloodshed and will no longer conceal her slain.

¹⁵But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

²⁵Three days later, while they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons (Dinah’s brothers Simeon and Levi) took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and slaughtered every male.

²⁶They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.

²How long, O men, will my honor be maligned? How long will you love vanity and seek after lies? Selah

⁷Let us go to His dwelling place; let us worship at His footstool.

²I bow down toward Your holy temple and give thanks to Your name for Your loving devotion and Your faithfulness; You have exalted Your name and Your word above all else.

¹⁶Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

¹³But my prayer to You, O Lord, is for a time of favor. In Your abundant loving devotion, O God, answer me with Your sure salvation.

²⁸Therefore, since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us be filled with gratitude, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe.

²⁹“For our God is a consuming fire.”

⁷Let the wicked man forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.

¹¹Teach me Your way, O Lord, and lead me on a level path, because of my oppressors.

⁴Show me Your ways, O Lord; teach me Your paths.

⁵Guide me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; all day long I wait for You.

⁵Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding;

⁶in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.

¹¹Teach me Your way, O Lord, that I may walk in Your truth. Give me an undivided heart, that I may fear Your name.

¹⁰With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.

⁸Let me hear Your loving devotion in the morning, for I have put my trust in You. Teach me the way I should walk, for to You I lift up my soul.

⁹Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord; I flee to You for refuge.

³“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the Lord.

⁴“Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander.

¹³“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”

⁴They fully intend to cast him down from his lofty perch; they delight in lies; with their mouths they bless, but inwardly they curse. Selah

¹²For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.

⁵A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

⁶Surely You desire truth in the inmost being; You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

¹⁰But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.

¹⁴Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The advice of Hushai the Archite is better than that of Ahithophel.” For the Lord had purposed to thwart the good counsel of Ahithophel in order to bring disaster on Absalom.

⁹May the heads of those who surround me be covered in the trouble their lips have caused.

¹⁰May burning coals fall on them; may they be thrown into the fire, into the miry pits, never to rise again.

¹⁹For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”

¹⁸May lying lips be silenced—lips that speak with arrogance against the righteous, full of pride and contempt.

¹³May the accusers of my soul be ashamed and consumed; may those who seek my harm be covered with scorn and disgrace.

²⁸And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.

¹After this I heard a sound like the roar of a great multitude in heaven, shouting: “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God!

²For His judgments are true and just. He has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality. He has avenged the blood of His servants that was poured out by her hand.”

³But the righteous will be glad and rejoice before God; they will celebrate with joy.

¹⁶May all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; may those who love Your salvation always say, “The Lord be magnified!”

⁹Rather, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him.”

¹²Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.

¹¹For the Lord God is a sun and a shield; the Lord gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.

¹⁰Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but loving devotion surrounds him who trusts in the Lord.

¹³He will bless those who fear the Lord—small and great alike.

¹Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.

²But his delight is in the Law of the Lord, and on His law he meditates day and night.

¹Hallelujah! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who greatly delights in His commandments.

⁷You are my hiding place. You protect me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah