Psalm 7

¹ O LORD my God, in you I take refuge;
save me from all who pursue me, and deliver me,

² lest he tear my soul like a lion,
ripping it apart with no one to rescue.

³ O LORD my God, if I have done this—
if there is injustice on my hands,

⁴ if I have repaid my ally with evil,
or plundered my foe without cause—

⁵ let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it;
let him trample my life to the ground
and lay my honor in the dust. Selah

⁶ Rise up, O LORD, in your anger;
lift yourself up against the fury of my foes.
Awake for me; you have commanded justice.

⁷ Let the assembly of peoples gather around you,
and over it return on high.

⁸ The LORD judges the peoples;
vindicate me, O LORD,
according to my righteousness
and according to my integrity that is in me.

⁹ Let the evil of the wicked come to an end,
but establish the righteous—
you who test hearts and minds,
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 has indignation every day.

¹² If one does not turn back, he sharpens his sword;
he has bent his bow and made it ready.

¹³ He has prepared for himself deadly weapons;
he makes his arrows into fiery shafts.

¹⁴ Look—he conceives iniquity,
is pregnant with trouble,
and gives birth to falsehood.

¹⁵ He digs a pit and hollows it out,
and falls into the hole he has made.

¹⁶ His trouble returns upon his own head,
and his violence comes down on his own skull.

¹⁷ I will give thanks to the LORD for his righteousness,
and I will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.