BIRCHWOOD CHURCH
A reformed church rooted in the good news of Jesus Christ
and living to the glory of God in Charlottetown, PEI
Psalm 6
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1 LORD, in your wrath rebuke me not;
in anger do not chasten me.
Have mercy, LORD, for I am faint;
LORD, heal me in my agony.
3 My soul with anguish is distressed.
O LORD, how long will you delay?
4 Turn to me, LORD, and free my soul;
In steadfast love save me, I pray.
5 No one in death remembers you;
Who from the grave can give you praise?
6 My groaning weakens me; at night
My bed is drenched with tears always.
7 My eyes grow weak with tears of grief;
They fail because of all my foes.
8 Away from me, you evil crowd!
The LORD has listened to my woes.
9 The LORD has heard my prayer for help;
the LORD has listened to my plea.
10 My enemies, disgraced and shamed,
Will turn back from me suddenly.
Copyright Free Church of Scotland
Psalm 7
1 O LORD my God, my refuge is in you;
Deliver me from all those who pursue,
2 Lest, lion-like, they tear ferociously,
While there is no one to deliver me.
3 O LORD my God, if such a thing I planned,
And if the guilt of sin is on my hand—
4 If I have wronged the one at peace with me,
Or without cause have robbed my enemy—
5 Then let my foe pursue relentlessly
That he may vent his hateful spite on me,
And let him trample me into the ground;
So will my honour in the dust be found.
6 Arise, O LORD, in wrath against my foes,
Against the rage of all who me oppose.
Awake, my God, let justice now abound
7 For all assembled nations gathered round.
Rule over all the nations from on high;
8 Your justice to the peoples, LORD, apply.
According to my righteousness judge me;
Look, O Most High, on my integrity.
9 O God of righteousness, you are the one
Who searches deep the heart and mind of man;
Bring to an end the wicked’s violence
And be the righteous one’s secure defence.
10 My shield and confidence is God Most High
Who saves the upright when to him they cry.
11 God is a judge who does what’s right and fair,
And every day his wrath God will declare.
12,13 If it should be that God will not relent,
He’ll fashion sword and deadly armament,
And he will bend and string his mighty bow
From which his fiery arrows forth will go.
14 The one who evil in his heart conceives
Gives birth to lies and no reward receives.
15 He digs a hole, he scoops it with his spade,
Then falls into the very pit he made.
16 His scheming will recoil on him instead;
His evil will descend upon his head.
17 I’ll thank the LORD who acts in righteousness;
I’ll praise the LORD Most High; his name I’ll bless.
Copyright Free Church of Scotland
Psalm 8
1 In all the earth, O LORD our Lord,
how glorious is your name!
For you have set above the heavens
your glory and your fame.
2 From infants’ and from children’s lips
you ordered praise to sound,
To silence all your enemies,
the wicked to confound.
3 When I regard the heavens you made,
your fingers’ work I trace;
I see the moon and shining stars
which you have set in place.
4 I ask myself, “What then is man
that you should give him thought—
The son of man, that you to him
such gracious care have brought?”
5 You made him little less than those
who dwell in heaven above,
And you have crowned and honoured him
with glory and with love.
6 You gave him charge of all the works
created by your hand,
And everything that you had made
you gave him to command—
7,8 All flocks and herds, and birds and fish,
all beasts both wild and tame.
9 In all the earth, O LORD our Lord,
how glorious is your name!
Copyright Free Church of Scotland
Psalm 9b
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1 Wholehearted thanksgiving to you I will bring;
In praise of your marvellous works I will sing.
2 For joy I will shout and exultantly cry
In praise of your glorious name, O Most High.
3 My enemies turn in disorderly flight;
They stumble and perish in face of your might.
4 For you have defended my right and my cause;
You sat in just judgment, upholding your laws.
5 You threatened the nations, the wicked destroyed;
Their names you erased and for ever made void.
6 My foes are disgraced and completely undone,
Their cities uprooted, their memory gone.
7 The LORD sits for ever as king on his throne;
His rule is established for justice alone.
8 He judges the world and he does what is right;
He governs the nations with justice and might.
9 The LORD is a stronghold in times of distress,
A refuge for those whom the wicked oppress.
10 Your people who know you will trust in your grace;
You’ve never forsaken those seeking your face.
11 Praise God, who in Zion has founded his throne;
Proclaim to the nations the deeds he has done.
12 The cry of afflicted ones rings in his ear;
Their blood he avenges, their plea he will hear.
13 LORD, see what I suffer from malice and hate!
Have pity, and lift me away from death’s gate,
14 That I in Jerusalem’s gates may proclaim
Your mercy, and sing to the praise of your name.
15 The nations are sunk in the pit they prepared;
Their feet in the net which they hid are ensnared.
16 The LORD by his justice has made himself known;
And by their own works are the wicked cast down.
17 The wicked return to the grave’s dark abode,
All nations and those who are heedless of God.
18 But God will remember the cause of the weak;
He will not let perish the hope of the meek.
19 Arise, O my God! Let not man win the day;
Let nations be judged in your presence, I pray.
20 O LORD, strike the nations; put fear in their breast
To teach them that they are but human at best.
Copyright Free Church of Scotland
Psalm 9b
1 Wholehearted thanksgiving to you I will bring;
In praise of your marvellous works I will sing.
2 For joy I will shout and exultantly cry
In praise of your glorious name, O Most High.
3 My enemies turn in disorderly flight;
They stumble and perish in face of your might.
4 For you have defended my right and my cause;
You sat in just judgment, upholding your laws.
5 You threatened the nations, the wicked destroyed;
Their names you erased and for ever made void.
6 My foes are disgraced and completely undone,
Their cities uprooted, their memory gone.
7 The LORD sits for ever as king on his throne;
His rule is established for justice alone.
8 He judges the world and he does what is right;
He governs the nations with justice and might.
9 The LORD is a stronghold in times of distress,
A refuge for those whom the wicked oppress.
10 Your people who know you will trust in your grace;
You’ve never forsaken those seeking your face.
11 Praise God, who in Zion has founded his throne;
Proclaim to the nations the deeds he has done.
12 The cry of afflicted ones rings in his ear;
Their blood he avenges, their plea he will hear.
13 LORD, see what I suffer from malice and hate!
Have pity, and lift me away from death’s gate,
14 That I in Jerusalem’s gates may proclaim
Your mercy, and sing to the praise of your name.
15 The nations are sunk in the pit they prepared;
Their feet in the net which they hid are ensnared.
16 The LORD by his justice has made himself known;
And by their own works are the wicked cast down.
17 The wicked return to the grave’s dark abode,
All nations and those who are heedless of God.
18 But God will remember the cause of the weak;
He will not let perish the hope of the meek.
19 Arise, O my God! Let not man win the day;
Let nations be judged in your presence, I pray.
20 O LORD, strike the nations; put fear in their breast
To teach them that they are but human at best.
Copyright Free Church of Scotland