Psalms 7

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