Psalm 7

Lexham English Bible

7 O Yahweh, my God, in you I have taken refuge.
Save me from all who pursue me, and deliver me.
² Or else he will tear me apart like a lion,
ripping to pieces, with none to deliver.
³ O Yahweh, my God, if I have done this,
if there is wrong in my hands,
⁴ if I have repaid my ally^[c] with harm,
or if I have plundered my enemy without cause,
⁵ let the enemy of my soul pursue,
and overtake and trample my life into the ground,
and lay my honor in the dust. Selah
⁶ Rise up, O Yahweh, in your anger,
and lift yourself up against the wrath^[d] of my oppressors,
and awake for me,
since you have commanded judgment.
⁷ And let the assembly of peoples surround you,
and over it return on high.
⁸ Yahweh judges the nations.
O Yahweh, vindicate me
according to my innocence^[e] and according to my integrity within me.
⁹ Let the evil of the wicked come to an end,
but establish the righteous,
and test the hearts and innermost being, O righteous God.
¹⁰ My shield is with God
who saves the upright of heart.
¹¹ God is a righteous judge,
and a God who has indignation every day.
¹² If he^[f] does not repent, he^[g] will sharpen his sword.
He has bent his bow and he has strung^[h] it.
¹³ And he has prepared for him weapons of death.
He has made his arrows fiery shafts.
¹⁴ See, he^[i] travails with^[j] evil.
He is pregnant with trouble,
and he gives birth to deception.
¹⁵ He makes a pit and digs it out,
then falls in the trap he has made.
¹⁶ His trouble comes back on his head,
and his violence comes down on his skull.
¹⁷ I will thank Yahweh according to his righteousness,
and I will sing praise to the name of Yahweh, the Most High.