Let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it;
Yea, let him tread my life down to the earth,
And lay my glory in the dust.

Arise, O LORD, in thine anger,

Lift up thyself against the rage of mine adversaries :
And awake for me.

Thou hast commanded judgement:

And let the congregation of the peoples compass thee about: And over them return thou on high.

The LORD ministereth judgement to the peoples:
Judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness,
And to mine integrity that is in me.

Oh, let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end,
But establish thou the righteous.

For the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins:
My shield is with God, which saveth the upright in
heart.

God is a righteous judge,

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Yea, a God that hath indignation every day.

If a man turn not, he will whet his sword;

He hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; He maketh his arrows fiery shafts.

Behold, he travaileth with iniquity;

Yea, he hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

He hath made a pit, and digged it,

And is fallen into the ditch which he made.

His mischief shall return upon his own head,

And his violence shall come down upon his own pate.

I will give thanks unto the LORD according to his righteous

ness:

And will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.

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Man the Viceroy of God

O LORD, our Lord,

How excellent is thy name in all the earth!

Who hast set thy glory upon the heavens,

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established strength,

Because of thine adversaries,

That thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,
The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
What is man, that thou art mindful of him?

And the son of man, that thou visitest him?

For thou hast made him but little lower than God,

And crownest him with glory and honour.

Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of

thy hands;

Thou hast put all things under his feet:

All sheep and oxen,

Yea, and the beasts of the field;

The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea,

Whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

O LORD, our Lord,

How excellent is thy name in all the earth!

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An Acrostic Anthem of Judgment

A I will give thanks unto the LORD with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.

I will be glad and exult in thee :

I will sing praise to thy name, O thou Most High.

When mine enemies turn back,

They stumble and perish at thy presence.

For thou hast maintained my right and my cause;
Thou satest in the throne judging righteously.

Thou hast rebuked the nations, thou hast destroyed the wicked,

Thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.

E The enemy are come to an end, they are desolate for

ever:

And the cities which thou hast overthrown, their very memorial is perished.

But the LORD sitteth as king for ever: He hath prepared his throne for judgement.

And he shall judge the world in righteousness,

He shall minister judgement to the peoples in uprightness.

The LORD also will be a high tower for the oppressed,
A high tower in times of trouble;

And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee;
For thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: Declare among the peoples his doings.

For he that maketh inquisition for blood remembereth them :

He forgetteth not the cry of the poor.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD,

'Behold my affliction which I suffer of them that hate me,

'Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death; 'That I may shew forth all thy praise

'In the gates of the daughter of Zion,—

'I will rejoice in thy salvation.'

The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made :

In the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

The LORD hath made himself known, he hath executed

judgement;

The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.

The wicked shall return to Sheol,

Even all the nations that forget God.