Psalm 7

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I Take Refuge in You

¹A Shiggaion^a of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning the words of Cush, a Benjamite.

O LORD my God, I take refuge in You;

save me and deliver me from all my pursuers,

¹A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to YHWH, concerning the words of Cush, the Benjamite. O YHWH my God, in You I have taken refuge; keep me safe from all those pursuing me, and deliver me,

²or they will shred my soul like a lion

and tear me to pieces with no one to rescue me.

²lest they tear my soul like a lion, tearing apart, and there is no one snatching me up.

³O LORD my God, if I have done this,

if injustice is on my hands,

³O YHWH my God, if I have done this, if there is injustice in my palms,

⁴if I have rewarded my ally^a with evil,

if I have plundered my foe without cause,

⁴if I have dealt with the one at peace with me with evil, or have drawn out my enemy without cause,

⁵then may my enemy pursue me and overtake me;

may he trample me to the ground

and leave my honor in the dust.

Selah

⁵may the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it, and let him trample my life to the ground, and let him set down my honor in the dust. Selah

⁶Arise, O LORD, in Your anger;

rise up against the fury of my enemies.

Awake, my God, and ordain judgment.

⁶arise, O YHWH, in Your anger; lift up against the fury of my adversaries, and rouse Yourself for me; You have appointed a judgment.

⁷Let the assembled peoples gather around You;

take Your seat over them on high.

⁷And let the congregation of peoples surround You; and over it return in the heights.

⁸The LORD judges the peoples;

vindicate me, O LORD,

according to my righteousness and integrity.

⁸YHWH shall judge the peoples; Judge me, O YHWH, according to my righteousness, and according to my integrity within me.

⁹Put an end to the evil of the wicked,

but establish the righteous,

O righteous God who searches hearts and minds.^a

⁹Please, let the evil of the wicked cease, and may you establish the righteous—even the One testing hearts and kidneys, O Righteous God.

¹⁰My shield is with God,

who saves the upright in heart.

¹⁰My shield is on God, the One saving the upright of heart.

¹¹God is a righteous judge

and a God who feels indignation each day.

¹¹God is a righteous judge, and a God expressing wrath on every day.

¹²If one does not repent,

God will sharpen His sword;

He has bent and strung His bow.

¹²If one shall not turn back, then He sharpens His sword; He has bent His bow and prepared it.

¹³He has prepared His deadly weapons;

He ordains His arrows with fire.

¹³And for Himself He has prepared instruments of death; His arrows He makes into fiery shafts.

¹⁴Behold, the wicked man travails with evil;

he conceives trouble and births falsehood.

¹⁴Behold, he travails with evil, and he conceives trouble, and brings forth falsehood.

¹⁵He has dug a hole and hollowed it out;

he has fallen into a pit of his own making.

¹⁵He has dug a pit and hollowed it out, and he has fallen into a pit he has made.

¹⁶His trouble recoils on himself,

and his violence falls on his own head.

¹⁶His trouble shall return upon his head, and on the top of his head, his violence shall come down.

¹⁷I will thank the LORD for His righteousness

and sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.

¹⁷I will confess YHWH according to His righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of YHWH-Elyon.