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        Like a lion they will tear me to pieces
            and drag me off with no one to rescue me.

O Yahweh my Elohim,
    if I have done this—
        if my hands are stained with injustice,
        if I have paid back my friend with evil
            or rescued someone who has no reason to attack me—[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 7:4 Hebrew meaning of this line uncertain.

or they will tear me apart like a lion(A)
    and rip me to pieces with no one to rescue(B) me.

Lord my God, if I have done this
    and there is guilt on my hands(C)
if I have repaid my ally with evil
    or without cause(D) have robbed my foe—

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