Psalms7

¹A Shiggaion of David , which he sang to the Lord concerning the words of Cush , a Benjaminite . O Lord my God , in you do I take refuge ; save me from all my pursuers and deliver me,

²lest like a lion they tear my soul apart, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver .

³O Lord my God , if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands ,

⁴if I have repaid my friend with evil or plundered my enemy without cause ,

⁵let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it, and trample my life to the ground and lay my glory in the dust . Selah

⁶Arise , O Lord, in your anger ; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies ; awake for me; you have appointed a judgment .

⁷Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you; over it return on high .

⁸The Lord judges the peoples ; judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.

⁹Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end , and may you establish the righteous — you who test the minds and hearts , O righteous God !

¹⁰My shield is with God , who saves the upright in heart .

¹¹God is a righteous judge , and a God who indignation every day .

¹²If a man does not repent , God will whet his sword ; he has bent and readied his bow ;

¹³he has prepared for him his deadly weapons , making his arrows fiery shafts .

¹⁴Behold , the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies .

¹⁵He makes a pit , digging it out, and falls into the hole that he has made .

¹⁶His mischief returns upon his own head , and on his own skull his violence descends .

¹⁷I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness , and I will sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High .