Psalm 7

In You Do I Take Refuge

7A ^lShiggaion¹ of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite.

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

ⁿsave me from all my pursuers and deliver me,

²lest like ^oa lion they tear my soul apart,

rending it in pieces, with ^pnone to deliver.

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

if there is ^rwrong in my hands,

⁴if I have repaid ^smy friend² with evil

or ^tplundered my enemy without cause,

⁵let 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

^6vArise, O Lord, in your anger;

^wlift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;

^xawake for me; you have appointed a judgment.

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

over it return on high.

⁸The Lord ^yjudges the peoples;

^zjudge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness

and according to the integrity that is in me.

⁹Oh, 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!

¹⁰My shield is ^cwith God,

who saves ^dthe upright in heart.

¹¹God is ^ea righteous judge,

and a God who feels ^findignation every day.

¹²If a man⁴ does not repent, God⁵ will ^gwhet his sword;

he has ^hbent and ⁱreadied his bow;

¹³he has prepared for him his deadly weapons,

making his ^jarrows ^kfiery shafts.

¹⁴Behold, the wicked man ^lconceives evil

and is ^lpregnant with mischief

and gives birth to lies.

¹⁵He makes ^ma pit, digging it out,

and falls into the hole that he has made.

¹⁶His ⁿmischief returns upon his own head,

and on his own skull his violence descends.

¹⁷I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness,

and I will ^osing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.