To the chief musician on nehiloth, a psalm of David
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📚✭Give ear to my words,O LORD.
Consider my meditation✭.
2 📚✭Listen to the sound of my cry,
my King, and my God;
for to you I will pray.
3 📚✭You will hear my voice
in the morning, O LORD;
in the morning I will direct
my prayer to you,
and will look up✭.
4 📚✭For you are not a God
who takes pleasure
in wickedness;
nor does evil dwell with you.
5 📚The foolish will not stand
in your sight.
You hate✭ all evildoers.
6 📚✭You will destroy those
who speak lies.
The LORD abhors the bloodthirsty
and deceitful man.
7 📚✭But as for me, I will come
into your house by the
abundance of your mercy,
and in your fear
I will worship toward
your holy temple.
8 📚✭Lead me, O LORD,
in your righteousness
because of my enemies.
Make your way straight
before my face.
9 📚✭For there is no faithfulness
in their mouth.
Their heart is utter
wickedness.
Their throat is an open grave✭.
They flatter with their tongue.
10 📚✭Pronounce them guilty,
O God!
Let them fall by their
own counsels.
Throw them away in the multitude
of their transgressions;
for they have rebelled
against you.
11 📚But let all those who put
their trust✭ in you rejoice.
Let them always shout
for joy✭,
because you defend✭ them.
And let those who love your name✭
be joyful in you.
12 📚For you, O LORD, will bless✭
the righteous.
You will surround him with favour
as with a shield✭.