Psalms 7

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition	NEW JERUSALEM
1 A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning Cush a Benjaminite. O LORD my God, in thee do I take refuge; save me from all my pursuers, and deliver 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 lest like a lion they rend me, dragging me away, with none to rescue.	2 or he wil savage me like a lion, carry me off with no one to rescue me.
3 O LORD my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,	3 Yahweh my God, if I have done this: if injustice has stained my hands,
4 if I have requited my friend with evil or plundered my enemy without cause,	4 if I have repaid my al y with treachery or spared one who attacked me unprovoked,
5 let the enemy pursue me and overtake me, and let him trample my life to the ground, and lay my soul in the dust. [Selah]	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, O LORD, in thy anger, lift thyself up against the fury of my enemies; awake, O my God; thou hast appointed a judgment.	6 Arise, Yahweh, in your anger, rise up against the arrogance of my foes. Awake, my God, you demandjudgement.
7 Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about thee; and over it take thy seat on high.	7 Let the assembly of nations gather round you; return above it on high!
8 The LORD judges the peoples; judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.	8 (Yahweh judges the nations.) Judge me, Yahweh, as my uprightness and my integrity deserve.
9 O let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish thou the righteous, thou who triest the minds and hearts, thou righteous God.	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 My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.	10 God is a shield that protects me, saving the honest of heart.
11 God is a righteous judge, and a God who has indignation every day.	11 God is an upright judge, slow to anger, but a God at al times threatening
12 If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and strung his bow;	12 for those who wil not repent. Let the enemy whet his sword, draw his bow and make ready;
13 he has prepared his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts.	13 but he is making ready instruments of death for himself and tipping his arrows with fire;
14 Behold, the wicked man conceives evil, and is pregnant with mischief, and brings forth lies.	14 look at him: pregnant with malice, conceiving spite, he gives birth to treachery.
15 He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole which he has made.	15 He digs a trap, scoops it out, but he fal s into the snare he made himself.
16 His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own pate his violence descends.	16 His spite recoils on his own head, his brutality falls back on his own skul .
17 I will give to the LORD the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the LORD, the Most High.	17 I thank Yahweh for his saving justice. I sing to the name of the Most High.