Psalms 5

1 To the Chief Musician. For the Flutes. A Melody of David. To my words, give ear, O Yahweh, Understand thou my softly murmured prayer:

To him that excelleth upon Nehiloth. A Psalme of Dauid. Heare my wordes, O Lord: vnderstande my (meditation)

2 Attend to the voice of my cry, my King and my God, for, unto thee, do I pray.

Hearken vnto the voyce of my crie, my King and my God: for vnto thee doe I pray.

3 O Yahweh! in the morning, shalt thou hear my voice, In the morning, will I set in order unto thee, and keep watch;

Heare my voyce in the morning, O Lord: for in the morning will I direct me vnto thee, and I will waite.

4 For, not a GOD finding pleasure in lawlessness, art thou, and wrong can be no guest of thine:

For thou art not a God that loueth wickednes: neither shall euill dwell with thee.

5 Boasters, shall not station themselves, before thine eyes, —Thou hatest all workers of iniquity:

The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: for thou hatest all them that worke iniquitie.

6 Thou wilt destroy them who speak falsehood, —The man of bloodshed and of deceit, Yahweh abhorreth.

Thou shalt destroy them that speake lyes: the Lord will abhorre the bloodie man and deceitfull.

7 But, I, in the abounding of thy lovingkindness, will enter thy house, I will bow down towards thy holy temple, in reverence of thee:

But I wil come into thine house in the multitude of thy mercie: and in thy feare will I worship toward thine holy Temple.

8 O Yahweh! lead me in thy righteousness, because of mine adversaries, Make even, before me, thy way:

Leade me, O Lord, in thy righteousnes, because of mine enemies: make thy way plaine before my face.

9 For in his mouth is nothing worthy of trust, Their inward purpose, is engulphing ruin, —An opened sepulchre, is their throat, With their tongue, speak they smooth things.

For no constancie is in their mouth: within, they are very corruption: their throte is an open sepulchre, and they flatter with their tongue.

10 Declare them guilty, O God, Let them fall by their own counsels, —Into the throng of their own transgressions, thrust them down, For they have rebelled against thee: —

Destroy them, O God: let them fall from their counsels: cast them out for the multitude of their iniquities, because they haue rebelled against thee.

11 That all may rejoice who seek refuge in thee, to times age-abiding, may shout in triumph, that thou wilt protect them, and they may leap for joy in thee who are lovers of thy Name.

And let all them that trust in thee, reioyce and triumph for euer, and couer thou them: and let them, that loue thy Name, reioyce in thee.

12 For, thou, wilt bless the righteous man, O Yahweh, As with an all-covering shield—with good pleasure, wilt thou encompass him.

For thou Lord wilt blesse the righteous, and with fauour wilt compasse him, as with a shielde.