Psalms, 7

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0. A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning Cush a Benjaminite.

1. [Lament Of David Which he sang to Yahweh about Cush the Benjaminite] Yahweh my God, I take refuge in you, save me from all my pursuers and rescue me,

1. O LORD my God, in thee do I take refuge; save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me,

2. or he will savage me like a lion, carry me off with no one to rescue me.

2. lest like a lion they rend me, dragging me away, with none to rescue.

3. Yahweh my God, if I have done this: if injustice has stained my hands,

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 treachery or spared one who attacked me unprovoked,

4. if I have requited my friend with evil or plundered my enemy without cause,

5. may an enemy hunt me down and catch me, may he trample my life into the ground and crush my vital parts into the dust.Pause

5. let the enemy pursue me and overtake me, and let him trample my life to the ground, and lay my soul in the dust. [Selah]

6. Arise, Yahweh, in your anger, rise up against the arrogance of my foes. Awake, my God, you demand judgement.

6. Arise, O LORD, in thy anger, lift thyself up against the fury of my enemies; awake, O my God; thou hast appointed a judgment.

7. Let the assembly of nations gather round you; return above it on high!

7. Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about thee; and over it take thy seat on high.

8. (Yahweh judges the nations.) Judge me, Yahweh, as my uprightness and my integrity deserve.

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

9. Put an end to the malice of the wicked, make the upright stand firm, you who discern hearts and minds, God the upright.

9. O let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish thou the righteous, thou who triest the minds and hearts, thou righteous God.

10. God is a shield that protects me, saving the honest of heart.

10. My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.

11. God is an upright judge, slow to anger, but a God at all times threatening

11. God is a righteous judge, and a God who has indignation every day.

12. for those who will not repent. Let the enemy whet his sword, draw his bow and make ready;

12. If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and strung his bow;

13. but he is making ready instruments of death for himself and tipping his arrows with fire;

13. he has prepared his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts.

14. look at him: pregnant with malice, conceiving spite, he gives birth to treachery.

14. Behold, the wicked man conceives evil, and is pregnant with mischief, and brings forth lies.

15. He digs a trap, scoops it out, but he falls into the snare he made himself.

15. He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole which he has made.

16. His spite recoils on his own head, his brutality falls back on his own skull.

16. His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own pate his violence descends.

17. I thank Yahweh for his saving justice. I sing to the name of the Most High.

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