Psalms 7

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
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,	1 The psalm of David which he sung to the Lord for the words of Chusi the son of Jemini. [2 Kings 16.]
2 or he wil savage me like a lion, carry me off with no one to rescue me.	2 O Lord my God, in thee have I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me.
3 Yahweh my God, if I have done this: if injustice has stained my hands,	3 Lest at any time he seize upon my soul like a lion, while there is no one to redeem me, nor to save.
4 if I have repaid my al y with treachery or spared one who attacked me unprovoked,	4 O Lord my God, if I have done this thing, if there be iniquity in my hands:
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	5 If I have rendered to them that repaid me evils, let me deservedly fall empty before my enemies.
6 Arise, Yahweh, in your anger, rise up against the arrogance of my foes. Awake, my God, you demandjudgement.	6 Let the enemy pursue my soul, and take it, and tread down my life on the earth, and bring down my glory to the dust.
7 Let the assembly of nations gather round you; return above it on high!	7 Rise up, O Lord, in thy anger: and be thou exalted in the borders of my enemies. And arise, O Lord my God, in the precept which thou hast commanded:
8 (Yahweh judges the nations.) Judge me, Yahweh, as my uprightness and my integrity deserve.	8 and a congregation of people shall surround thee. And for their sakes return thou on high.
9 Put an end to the malice of the wicked, make the upright stand firm, you who discern hearts and minds,God the upright.	9 The Lord judgeth the people. Judge me, O Lord, according to my justice, and according to my innocence in me.
10 God is a shield that protects me, saving the honest of heart.	10 The wickedness of sinners shall be brought to nought: and thou shalt direct the just: the searcher of hearts and reins is God.
11 God is an upright judge, slow to anger, but a God at al times threatening	11 Just is my help from the Lord: who saveth the upright of heart.
12 for those who wil not repent. Let the enemy whet his sword, draw his bow and make ready;	12 God is a just judge, strong and patient: is he angry every day?
13 but he is making ready instruments of death for himself and tipping his arrows with fire;	13 Except you will be converted, he will brandish his sword: he hath bent his bow and made it ready.
14 look at him: pregnant with malice, conceiving spite, he gives birth to treachery.	14 And in it he hath prepared the instruments of death, he hath made ready his arrows for them that burn.
15 He digs a trap, scoops it out, but he fal s into the snare he made himself.	15 Behold he hath been in labour with injustice; he hath conceived sorrow, and brought forth iniquity.
16 His spite recoils on his own head, his brutality falls back on his own skul .	16 He hath opened a pit and dug it; and he is fallen into the hole he made.
17 I thank Yahweh for his saving justice. I sing to the name of the Most High.	17 His sorrow shall be turned on his own head: and his iniquity shall comedown upon his crown.
	18 I will give glory to the Lord according to his justice: and will sing to the name of the Lord the most high.