Psalm 7

In You Do I Take Refuge

A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite.

¹O Lord my God, in you do I take refuge;

save me from all my pursuers and deliver me,

²lest like a lion they tear my soul apart,

rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.

³O Lord my God, if I have done this,

if there is wrong in my hands,

⁴if I have repaid my friend with evil

or plundered my enemy without cause,

⁵let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it,

and let him trample my life to the ground

and lay my glory in the dust. Selah

⁶Arise, O Lord, in your anger;

lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;

awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.

⁷Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you;

over it return on high.

⁸The Lord judges the peoples;

judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness

and according to the integrity that is in me.

⁹Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end,

and may you establish the righteous—

you who test the minds and hearts,

O righteous God!

¹⁰My shield is with God,

who saves the upright in heart.

¹¹God is a righteous judge,

and a God who feels indignation every day.

¹²If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword;

he has bent and readied his bow;

¹³he has prepared for him his deadly weapons,

making his arrows fiery shafts.

¹⁴Behold, the wicked man conceives evil

and is pregnant with mischief

and gives birth to lies.

¹⁵He makes a pit, digging it out,

and falls into the hole that he has made.

¹⁶His mischief returns upon his own head,

and on his own skull his violence descends.

¹⁷I 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.