Psalms 7

NEW JERUSALEM	KING JAMES BIBLE
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 O Lord my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:
2 or he wil savage me like a lion, carry me off with no one to rescue me.	2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
3 Yahweh my God, if I have done this: if injustice has stained my hands,	3 O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;
4 if I have repaid my al y with treachery or spared one who attacked me unprovoked,	4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)
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 Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.
6 Arise, Yahweh, in your anger, rise up against the arrogance of my foes. Awake, my God, you demandjudgement.	6 Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.
7 Let the assembly of nations gather round you; return above it on high!	7 So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high.
8 (Yahweh judges the nations.) Judge me, Yahweh, as my uprightness and my integrity deserve.	8 The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.
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 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
10 God is a shield that protects me, saving the honest of heart.	10 My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.
11 God is an upright judge, slow to anger, but a God at al times threatening	11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.
12 for those who wil not repent. Let the enemy whet his sword, draw his bow and make ready;	12 If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
13 but he is making ready instruments of death for himself and tipping his arrows with fire;	13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
14 look at him: pregnant with malice, conceiving spite, he gives birth to treachery.	14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
15 He digs a trap, scoops it out, but he fal s into the snare he made himself.	15 He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
16 His spite recoils on his own head, his brutality falls back on his own skul .	16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
17 I thank Yahweh for his saving justice. I sing to the name of the Most High.	17 I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.