Psalms 7

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¹ A plaintive song of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning Cush, the Benjaminite.	¹ [Lament Of David Which he sang to Yahweh about Cush the Benjaminite] Yahweh my God, I takerefuge in you, save me from al my pursuers and rescue me,
² LORD my God, in you I take refuge; rescue me; save me from all who pursue me,	² or he wil savage me like a lion, carry me off with no one to rescue me.
³ Lest they maul me like lions, tear me to pieces with none to save.	³ Yahweh my God, if I have done this: if injustice has stained my hands,
⁴ LORD my God, if I am at fault in this, if there is guilt on my hands,	⁴ if I have repaid my al y with treachery or spared one who attacked me unprovoked,
⁵ If I have repaid my friend with evil-- I spared even those who hated me without cause--	⁵ may an enemy hunt me down and catch me, may he trample my life into the ground and crush my vitalparts into the dust.Pause
⁶ Then let my enemy pursue and overtake me, trample my life to the ground, and leave me dishonored in the dust.Selah	⁶ Arise, Yahweh, in your anger, rise up against the arrogance of my foes. Awake, my God, you demandjudgement.
⁷ Rise up, LORD, in your anger; rise against the fury of my foes. Wake to judge as you have decreed.	⁷ Let the assembly of nations gather round you; return above it on high!
⁸ Have the assembly of the peoples gather about you; sit on your throne high above them,	⁸ (Yahweh judges the nations.) Judge me, Yahweh, as my uprightness and my integrity deserve.
⁹ O LORD, judge of the nations. Grant me justice, LORD, for I am blameless, free of any guilt.	⁹ Put an end to the malice of the wicked, make the upright stand firm, you who discern hearts and minds,God the upright.
¹⁰ Bring the malice of the wicked to an end; uphold the innocent, O God of justice, who tries hearts and minds.	¹⁰ God is a shield that protects me, saving the honest of heart.
¹¹ A shield before me is God who saves the honest heart.	¹¹ God is an upright judge, slow to anger, but a God at al times threatening
¹² God is a just judge, who rebukes in anger every day.	¹² for those who wil not repent. Let the enemy whet his sword, draw his bow and make ready;
¹³ If sinners do not repent, God sharpens his sword, strings and readies the bow,	¹³ but he is making ready instruments of death for himself and tipping his arrows with fire;
¹⁴ Prepares his deadly shafts, makes arrows blazing thunderbolts.	¹⁴ look at him: pregnant with malice, conceiving spite, he gives birth to treachery.
¹⁵ Sinners conceive iniquity; pregnant with mischief, they give birth to failure.	¹⁵ He digs a trap, scoops it out, but he fal s into the snare he made himself.
¹⁶ They open a hole and dig it deep, but fall into the pit they have dug.	¹⁶ His spite recoils on his own head, his brutality falls back on his own skul .
¹⁷ Their mischief comes back upon themselves; their violence falls on their own heads.	¹⁷ I thank Yahweh for his saving justice. I sing to the name of the Most High.
¹⁸ I praise the justice of the LORD; I celebrate the name of the LORD Most High.