Psalm 7

In You Do I Take Refuge

¹ O Lord my God, in you I take refuge;
save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me,
² or like a lion they will tear me apart;
they will drag me away, with no one to rescue.

³ O Lord my God, if I have done this,
if there is wrong in my hands,
⁴ if I have repaid my ally with harm
or plundered my foe without cause,
⁵ then let the enemy pursue and overtake me,
trample my life to the ground,
and lay my soul in the dust.+pSelah

⁶ Rise up, O Lord, in your anger;
lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;
awake, O my God; ₁ you have appointed a judgment.
⁷ Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered around you,
and over it take your seat ₂ 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 O let the evil of the wicked come to an end,
but establish the righteous,
you who test the minds and hearts,
O righteous God.
¹⁰ God is my shield,
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 repent, God ₃ will whet his sword;
he has bent and strung his bow;
¹³ he has prepared his deadly weapons,
making his arrows fiery shafts.
¹⁴ See how they conceive evil,
and are pregnant with mischief,
and bring forth lies.
¹⁵ They make a pit, digging it out,
and fall into the hole that they have made.
¹⁶ Their mischief returns upon their own heads,
and on their own heads their violence descends.

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