Psa. 7
:1
7:1
O Jehovah my God, in You do I
atake refuge.
Save me from all who pursue me, and deliver me;
Psa. 7
:2
7:2
Lest he tear my soul like a lion,
Tearing
it apart without anyone to deliver
it.
Psa. 7
:3
7:3
O Jehovah my God, if I have done this,
If there is
1unrighteousness in my hands,
Psa. 7
:4
7:4
If I have recompensed with evil him who was at peace with me
1(Rather, I have delivered him who vexed me without cause);
Psa. 7
:5
7:5
Let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake
me, And let him trample my life to the ground
And lay my glory down in the dust.
Selah
Psa. 7
:6
7:6
Arise, O Jehovah, in Your anger;
Lift Yourself up against the overflowing wrath of those who vex me,
And awake for me: You have commanded judgment.
Psa. 7
:7
7:7
And let the assembly of the peoples surround You,
And over it return on high.
Psa. 7
:8
7:8
Jehovah will execute
ajudgment on the peoples;
Judge me, O Jehovah, according to my righteousness
And according to my integrity that is with me.
Psa. 7
:9
7:9
Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end,
But establish the righteous man.
For the righteous God
aTries the hearts and the inward parts.
Psa. 7
:10
7:10
My shield is with God,
Who saves the upright in heart.
Psa. 7
:11
7:11
God is a righteous
aJudge And a God who has indignation every day.
Psa. 7
:12
7:12
If one does not turn, He will whet His sword.
He bends His bow and makes it ready.
Psa. 7
:13
7:13
And He prepares instruments of death against him;
He has made His arrows fiery
shafts.
Psa. 7
:14
7:14
Behold,
the evil man travails with iniquity;
He conceives mischief and brings forth falsehood.
Psa. 7
:15
7:15
He digs a pit and hollows it out,
Then he falls into the hole that he has made.
Psa. 7
:16
7:16
His mischief returns upon his own head,
And upon the crown of his own head his violence comes down.
Psa. 7
:17
7:17
I will give thanks to Jehovah according to His righteousness,
And I will sing psalms to the name of Jehovah the Most High.
