Psalm 5

Common Metre (8,6,8,6)

Suggested Tunes: 70 Gräfenberg, 136 Stracathro, 133 Spohr

1    Give ear unto my words, O Lord,

            my meditation weigh.

2    Hear my loud cry, my King, my God;

            for I to thee will pray.

3    Lord, thou shalt early hear my voice:

            I early will direct

      My pray’r to thee; and, looking up,

            an answer will expect.

4    For thou are not a God that doth

            in wickedness delight;

5    Neither shall evil dwell with thee,

            nor fools stand in thy sight.

      All that ill-doers are thou hat’st;

6          Cutt’st off that liars be:

      The bloody and deceitful man

            abhorred is by thee.

7    But I into thy house will come

            in thy abundant grace;

      And I will worship in thy fear

            toward thy holy place.

8    Because of those mine enemies,

            Lord in thy righteousness

      Do thou me lead; do thou thy way

            make straight before my face.

9    For in their mouth there is no truth,

            their inward part is ill;

      Their throat’s an open sepulchre,

            their tongue doth flatter still.

10  O God, destroy them; let them be

            by their own counsel quell’d:

      Them for their many sins cast out,

            for they ’gainst thee rebell’d.

11  But let all joy that trust in thee,

            and still make shouting noise;

      For them thou sav’st: let all that love

            thy name in thee rejoice.

12  For, Lord, unto the righteous man

            thou wilt thy blessing yield:

      With favour thou wilt compass him

            about, as with a shield.