Psalms 5: Directing My Prayer in the Morning
David asks God to hear him each morning and lead him straight.
Where Psalms 4 is an evening prayer, this chapter opens the day, with David promising to direct his prayer to the LORD each morning and look up expectantly. He contrasts God's holiness, which cannot tolerate wickedness, with the flattering, deceitful speech of his enemies.
Unto the end, for her that obtaineth the inheritance. A psalm for David.
Give ear, O Lord, to my words, understand my cry.
Hearken to the voice of my prayer, O my King and my God.
For to thee will I pray: O Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear my voice.
In the morning I will stand before thee, and I will see: because thou art not a God that willest iniquity.
Neither shall the wicked dwell near thee: nor shall the unjust abide before thy eyes.
Thou hatest all the workers of iniquity: thou wilt destroy all that speak a lie. The bloody and the deceitful man the Lord will abhor.
But as for me in the multitude of thy mercy, I will come into thy house; I will worship towards thy holy temple, in thy fear.
Conduct me, O Lord, in thy justice: because of my enemies, direct my way in thy sight.
For there is no truth in their mouth: their heart is vain.
Their throat is an open sepulchre: they dealt deceitfully with their tongues: judge them, O God. Let them fall from their devices: according to the multitude of their wickednesses cast them out: for they have provoked thee, O Lord.
But let all them be glad that hope in thee: they shall rejoice for ever, and thou shalt dwell in them. And all they that love thy name shall glory in thee.
For thou wilt bless the just. O Lord, thou hast crowned us, as with a shield of thy good will.