Psalms 7

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,

² lest like a lion they rend me, dragging me away, with none to rescue.

³ O LORD my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,

⁴ if I have requited my friend with evil or plundered my enemy without cause,

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]

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.

⁷ Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about thee; and over it take thy seat 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.

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.

¹⁰ My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.

¹¹ God is a righteous judge, and a God who has indignation every day.

¹² If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and strung his bow;

¹³ he has prepared his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts.

¹⁴ Behold, the wicked man conceives evil, and is pregnant with mischief, and brings forth lies.

¹⁵ He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole which he has made.

¹⁶ His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own pate his violence descends.

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.