Psalm 7:1–9

1  O Lord my God, in you do I mtake refuge;

nsave me from all my pursuers and deliver me,

2  lest like oa lion they tear my soul apart,

rending it in pieces, with pnone to deliver.

3  O Lord my God, qif I have done this,

if there is rwrong in my hands,

4  if I have repaid smy friend2 with evil

or tplundered my enemy without cause,

5  let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it,

and let him utrample my life to the ground

and lay my glory in the dust. Selah

6  vArise, O Lord, in your anger;

wlift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;

xawake for me; you have appointed a judgment.

7  Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you;

over it return on high.

8  The Lord yjudges the peoples;

zjudge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness

and according to the integrity that is in me.

9  Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end,

and may you establish the righteous—

you who atest bthe minds and hearts,3

O righteous God!