Psalm

7 O Jehovah my God,+ in you I have taken refuge.+

Save me from all those persecuting me and deliver me,+

 2 That no one may tear my soul* to pieces as a lion does,+

Snatching [me] away when there is no deliverer.+

 3 O Jehovah my God, if I have done this,+

If there exists any injustice in my hands,+

 4 If I have repaid the one rewarding me with what is bad,+

Or [if] I have despoiled anyone showing hostility to me without success,+

 5 Let an enemy pursue my soul+

And let him overtake and trample my life down to the very earth

And cause my own glory to reside in the dust itself. Seʹlah.

 6 Do arise, O Jehovah, in your anger;+

Lift yourself up at the outbursts of fury of those showing hostility to me,+

And do awake for me,*+ [since] you have given command for judgment itself.+

 7 And let the very assembly of national groups* surround you,

And against it do you return on high.

 8 Jehovah himself will pass sentence on the peoples.+

Judge me, O Jehovah, according to my righteousness+

And according to my integrity+ in me.

 9 Please, may the badness of wicked ones come to an end,+

And may you establish the righteous one;+

And God as righteous*+ is testing out heart+ and kidneys.*+

11 God* is a righteous Judge,+

And God* is hurling denunciations* every day.

12 If anyone will not return,+ His sword he will sharpen,+

His bow he will certainly bend,* and he will make it ready [for shooting].+

13 And for himself he must prepare the instruments of death;+

His arrows he will make flaming ones.+

14 Look! There is one that is pregnant with what is hurtful,+

And he has conceived trouble and is bound to give birth to falsehood.+

15 A pit he has excavated, and he proceeded to dig it;+

But he will fall into the hole [that] he went making.+

16 His trouble will return upon his own head,+

And upon the crown of his head his own violence will descend.+

17 I shall laud Jehovah according to his righteousness,+

And I will make melody to the name+ of Jehovah the Most High.+