Psalm 5:1-3

New Catholic Bible

¹For the director.^[b] With flutes. A psalm of David.

²Listen to my words, O Lord;
    pay heed to my sighs.
³Hear my cry for help,
    my King and my God;
    for to you I pray.

Psalm 5:1 This is a morning prayer (see v. 4) in which the psalmist prays for the Lord to hear his prayer and grant a sense of God’s goodness and justice, bestow guidance, punish enemies, and bless the righteous. Broken by tribulation, the persecuted man appeals for the justice of God against his own enemies. Christians must spiritualize the call for vengeance, hating evil rather than those who do evil. To love God is to choose the cause of justice and bear the witness of a purified joy.
Psalm 5:1 For the director: these words are thought to be a musical or liturgical notation.

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