AB - Psalms - 7

7:1  O Lord my God, in You have I trusted: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me,

7:2  lest at any time the enemy seize my soul as a lion, while there is none to ransom, nor to save.

7:3  O Lord my God, if I have done this; (if there is unrighteousness in my hands)

7:4  if I have requited with evil those who requited me with good; may I then perish empty by means of my enemies.

7:5  Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; and let him trample my life on the ground, and lay my glory in the dust. Pause.

7:6  Arise, O Lord, in Your wrath; be exalted in the utmost boundaries of my enemies: awake, O Lord my God, according to the decree which You did command.

7:7  And the congregation of the nations shall compass You: and for this cause do You return on high.

7:8  The Lord shall judge the nations: judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, and according to my innocence that is in me.

7:9  Oh let the wickedness of sinners come to an end; and then You shall direct the righteous, O God that searches the hearts and minds.

7:10  My help is righteous, coming from God, who saves the upright in heart.

7:11  God is a righteous Judge, and strong, and patient, not inflicting vengeance every day.

7:12  If you will not repent, He will furbish His sword; He has bent His bow, and made it ready.

7:13  And on it He has fitted the instruments of death; He has completed His arrows for the raging ones.

7:14  Behold, the wicked has travailed with unrighteousness; he has conceived trouble, and has brought forth iniquity.

7:15  He has opened a pit, and dug it up, and he shall fall into the ditch which he has made.

7:16  His trouble shall return on his own head, and his unrighteousness shall come down on his own crown.

7:17  I will give thanks to the Lord according to His righteousness; I will sing to the name of the Lord Most High.