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Psalm 5

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.

2My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
²So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;
³Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;
⁴If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
⁵Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.
⁶For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
⁷He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
⁸He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
⁹Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.

2And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
²Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
³Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
⁴But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
⁵Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
⁶And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
⁷That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
⁸For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
⁹Not of works, lest any man should boast.
¹⁰For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.