LEB - Psalms - 7

7:1  on account of Cush, a Benjaminite. O Yahweh, my God, in you I have taken refuge. Save me from all who pursue me, and deliver me.

7:2  Or else he will tear me apart like a lion, ripping to pieces, with none to deliver.

7:3  O Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,

7:4  if I have repaid ⌞my ally⌟ with harm, or if I have plundered my enemy without cause,

7:5  let the enemy of my soul pursue, and overtake and trample my life into the ground, and lay my honor in the dust. Selah

7:6  Rise up, O Yahweh, in your anger, and lift yourself up against the wrath of my oppressors, and awake for me, since you have commanded judgment.

7:7  And let the assembly of peoples surround you, and over it return on high.

7:8  Yahweh judges the nations. O Yahweh, vindicate me according to my innocence and according to my integrity within me.

7:9  Let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous, and test the hearts and innermost being, O righteous God.

7:10  My shield is with God who saves the upright of heart.

7:11  God is a righteous judge, and a God who has indignation every day.

7:12  If he does not repent, he will sharpen his sword. He has bent his bow and he has ⌞strung⌟ it.

7:13  And he has prepared for him weapons of death. He has made his arrows fiery shafts.

7:14  See, he travails with evil. He is pregnant with trouble, and he gives birth to deception.

7:15  He makes a pit and digs it out, then falls in the trap he has made.

7:16  His trouble comes back on his head, and his violence comes down on his skull.

7:17  I will thank Yahweh according to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of Yahweh, the Most High.