Psalm 7
In You Do I Take Refuge
A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite.
1
O Lord my God, in you do I take refuge;
save me from all my pursuers and deliver me,
2
lest like a lion they tear my soul apart,
rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.
3
O Lord my God, if I have done this,
if there is wrong in my hands,
4
if I have repaid my friendt with evil
or plundered my enemy without cause,
5
let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it,
and let him trample my life to the ground
and lay my glory in the dust. Selah
6
Arise, O Lord, in your anger;
lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;
awake 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 judges the peoples;
judge 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 test the minds and hearts,t
O righteous God!
10
My shield is with God,
who saves the upright in heart.
11
God is a righteous judge,
and a God who feels indignation every day.
12
If a mant does not repent, Godt will whet his sword;
he has bent and readied his bow;
13
he has prepared for him his deadly weapons,
making his arrows fiery shafts.
14
Behold, the wicked man conceives evil
and is pregnant with mischief
and gives birth to lies.
15
He makes a pit, digging it out,
and falls into the hole that he has made.
16
His mischief returns upon his own head,
and on his own skull 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.
Psalm 7
1 O Jehovah my God, in thee do I take refuge: Save me from all them that pursue me, and deliver me,
2 Lest they tear my soul like a lion, Rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
3 O Jehovah my God, if I have done this; If there be iniquity in my hands;
4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (Yea, I have delivered him that without cause was mine adversary;)
5 Let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; Yea, let him tread my life down to the earth, And lay my glory in the dust. Selah
6 Arise, O Jehovah, in thine anger; Lift up thyself against the rage of mine adversaries, And awake for me; thou hast commanded judgment.
7 And let the congregation of the peoples compass thee about; And over them return thou on high.
8 Jehovah ministereth judgment to the peoples: Judge me, O Jehovah, according to my righteousness, and to mine integrity that is in me.
9 O let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish thou the righteous: For the righteous God trieth the minds and hearts.
10 My shield is with God, Who saveth the upright in heart.
11 God is a righteous judge, Yea, a God that hath indignation every day.
12 If a man turn not, he will whet his sword; He hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; He maketh his arrows fiery shafts.
14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity; Yea, he hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
15 He hath made a pit, and digged it, And is fallen into the ditch which he made.
16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, And his violence shall come down upon his own pate.
17 I will give thanks unto Jehovah according to his righteousness, And will sing praise to the name of Jehovah Most High.
