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Psalm 5 · Book One · David

For the choirmaster, to be accompanied by flutes. A Psalm of David.

The Hebrew title · Berean Standard Bible

For the choirmaster

About this psalm

Morning, and the first thing said is said to God: My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up. Most of what follows is about the mouths of other people — flattery, an open sepulchre, a tongue that cannot be trusted — and about walking straight while they do not.

Read it at the start of a day you will spend among people you do not trust.

My psalms

One verse at a time, slowly

¹Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.²Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God:for unto thee will I pray.³My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD;in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.⁴For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness:neither shall evil dwell with thee.⁵The foolish shall not stand in thy sight:thou hatest all workers of iniquity.⁶Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing:the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.⁷But 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.⁸Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies;make thy way straight before my face.⁹For there is no faithfulness in their mouth;their inward part is very wickedness;their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.¹⁰Destroy 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.¹¹But 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.¹²For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous;with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.

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