Psalms — Chapter 5
For the leader; on neḥiloth.aFor the leader; on neḥiloth Meaning of Heb. uncertain. A psalm of David.
Give ear to my speech, O ETERNAL One;consider my utterance.
Heed the sound of my cry,my Sovereign and God,for I pray to You.
Hear my voice, O ETERNAL One, at daybreak;at daybreak I plead before You, and wait.
For You are not a God who desires wickedness;evil cannot abide with You;
the wanton cannot endure in Your sight.You detest all evildoers;
You doom those who speak lies;deceitful murderers GOD abhors.
But I, through Your abundant love, enter Your house;I bow down in awe at Your holy temple.
O ETERNAL One, lead me along Your righteous [path]blead me along Your righteous [path] Or “as You are righteous, lead me.” because of my watchful foes;make Your way straight before me.
For there is no sincerity on their lips;clips Lit. “mouth.” their heart is [filled with] malice;their throat is an open grave;their tongue slippery.
Condemn them, O God;let them fall by their own devices;cast them out for their many crimes,for they defy You.
But let all who take refuge in You rejoice,ever jubilant as You shelter them;and let those who love Your name exult in You.
For You surely bless the righteous, O ETERNAL One,encompassing them with favor like a shield.
✦ Connected Across Traditions
The Golden Rule
Matthew 7:12
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
Hadith (An-Nawawi 13)
“None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.”
Mahabharata 5.1517
“One should never do to another what one regards as injurious to oneself.”
Dhammapada 10:1
“All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.”
Impermanence & Letting Go
Dhammapada 20:277
“All conditioned things are impermanent. When one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.”
Tao Te Ching 76
“A man is born gentle and weak. At his death he is hard and stiff. The soft and yielding is the disciple of life.”
Ecclesiastes 3:1-2
“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.”
Bhagavad Gita 2:22
“As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones.”
Good vs Evil / Light vs Darkness
Yasna 30:3
“Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action.”
John 1:5
“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”
Dhammapada 1:1-2
“Mind is the forerunner of all actions. If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows like a shadow.”
Bhagavad Gita 16:21
“There are three gates to self-destructive hell: lust, anger, and greed. Therefore, one must learn to give these up.”