Psalms 7
1O Lord my God, in you have I trusted: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me. 1
2Lest at any time the enemy seize my soul as a lion, while there is none to ransom, nor to save. 1
3O Lord my God, if I have done this; (if there is unrighteousness in my hands;) 1
4if I have requited with evil those who requited me with good; may I then perish empty by means of my enemies. 1
5Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; and let him trample my life on the ground, and lay my glory in the dust. Pause. 1
6Arise, O Lord, in your wrath; be exalted + 7:6 Heb. 'because of my enemies.' in the utmost boundaries of my enemies: awake, O Lord my God, according to the decree which you did command. 1
7And the congregation of the nations shall compass you: and for this cause do you return on high. 1
8The Lord shall judge the nations: judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, and according to my innocence that is in me. 1
9Oh let the wickedness of sinners come to an end; and then you shall direct the righteous, O God that search the hearts and reins. 1
10My help is righteous, coming from God who saves the upright in heart. 1
11God is a righteous judge, and strong, and patient, not inflicting vengeance every day. 1
12If you⌃ will not repent, he will furbish his sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready. 1
13And on it he has fitted the instruments of death; he has completed his arrows for the + 7:13 See Heb. perhaps 'persecuting ones.' raging ones. 1
14Behold, he has travailed with unrighteousness, he has conceived trouble, and brought forth iniquity. 1
15He has opened a pit, and dug it up, and he shall fall into the ditch which he has made. 1
16His trouble shall return on his own head, and his unrighteousness shall come down on his own crown. 1
17I will give thanks to the Lord according to his righteousness; I will sing to the name of the Lord most high.