Psalms 7

NEW JERUSALEM	NEW JERUSALEM
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 [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 or he wil savage me like a lion, carry me off with no one to rescue me.	2 or he wil savage me like a lion, carry me off with no one to rescue me.
3 Yahweh my God, if I have done this: if injustice has stained my hands,	3 Yahweh my God, if I have done this: if injustice has stained my hands,
4 if I have repaid my al y with treachery or spared one who attacked me unprovoked,	4 if I have repaid my al y with treachery or spared one who attacked me unprovoked,
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 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 Arise, Yahweh, in your anger, rise up against the arrogance of my foes. Awake, my God, you demandjudgement.	6 Arise, Yahweh, in your anger, rise up against the arrogance of my foes. Awake, my God, you demandjudgement.
7 Let the assembly of nations gather round you; return above it on high!	7 Let the assembly of nations gather round you; return above it on high!
8 (Yahweh judges the nations.) Judge me, Yahweh, as my uprightness and my integrity deserve.	8 (Yahweh judges the nations.) Judge me, Yahweh, as my uprightness and my integrity deserve.
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 Put an end to the malice of the wicked, make the upright stand firm, you who discern hearts and minds,God the upright.
10 God is a shield that protects me, saving the honest of heart.	10 God is a shield that protects me, saving the honest of heart.
11 God is an upright judge, slow to anger, but a God at al times threatening	11 God is an upright judge, slow to anger, but a God at al times threatening
12 for those who wil not repent. Let the enemy whet his sword, draw his bow and make ready;	12 for those who wil not repent. Let the enemy whet his sword, draw his bow and make ready;
13 but he is making ready instruments of death for himself and tipping his arrows with fire;	13 but he is making ready instruments of death for himself and tipping his arrows with fire;
14 look at him: pregnant with malice, conceiving spite, he gives birth to treachery.	14 look at him: pregnant with malice, conceiving spite, he gives birth to treachery.
15 He digs a trap, scoops it out, but he fal s into the snare he made himself.	15 He digs a trap, scoops it out, but he fal s into the snare he made himself.
16 His spite recoils on his own head, his brutality falls back on his own skul .	16 His spite recoils on his own head, his brutality falls back on his own skul .
17 I thank Yahweh for his saving justice. I sing to the name of the Most High.	17 I thank Yahweh for his saving justice. I sing to the name of the Most High.