Psalm 7

PSALM 7

A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning Cush a Benjaminite.

¹O Lord my God, in thee do I take refuge;

save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me,

²lest like a lion they rend me,

dragging me away, with none to rescue.

³O Lord my God, if I have done this,

if there is wrong in my hands,

⁴if I have requited my friend with evil

or plundered my enemy without cause,

⁵let the enemy pursue me and overtake me,

and let him trample my life to the ground,

and lay my soul in the dust. [Selah]

⁶Arise, O Lord, in thy anger,

lift thyself up against the fury of my enemies;

awake, O my God; thou hast appointed a judgment.

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

and over it take thy seat on high.

⁸The Lord judges the peoples;

judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness

and according to the integrity that is in me.

⁹O 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.

¹⁰My shield is with God,

who saves the upright in heart.

¹¹God is a righteous judge,

and a God who has indignation every day.

¹²If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword;

he has bent and strung his bow;

¹³he has prepared his deadly weapons,

making his arrows fiery shafts.

¹⁴Behold, the wicked man conceives evil,

and is pregnant with mischief,

and brings forth lies.

¹⁵He makes a pit, digging it out,

and falls into the hole which he has made.

¹⁶His mischief returns upon his own head,

and on his own pate his violence descends.

¹⁷I 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.