Psalms 7:1-16

¹A Psalm of David, which he sang to the Lord because of the words of Chusi the Benjamite.

²O Lord my God, in thee have I trusted: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me.

³Lest at any time the enemy seize my soul as a lion, while there is none to ransom, nor to save.

⁴O Lord my God, if I have done this; (if there is unrighteousness in my hands;)

⁵if I have requited with evil those who requited me with good; may I then perish empty by means of my enemies.

⁶Let 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.

⁷Arise, O Lord, in thy wrath; be exalted in the utmost boundaries of mine enemies: awake, O Lord my God, according to the decree which thou didst command.

⁸And the congregation of the nations shall compass thee: and for this cause do thou return on high.

⁹The Lord shall judge the nations: judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, and according to my innocence that is in me.

¹⁰Oh let the wickedness of sinners come to an end; and then thou shalt direct the righteous, O God that searchest the hearts and reins.

¹¹My help is righteous, coming from God who saves the upright in heart.

¹²God is a righteous judge, and strong, and patient, not inflicting vengeance every day.

¹³If ye will not repent, he will furbish his sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready.

¹⁴And on it he has fitted the instruments of death; he has completed his arrows for the raging ones.

¹⁵Behold, he has travailed with unrighteousness, he has conceived trouble, and brought forth iniquity.

¹⁶He has opened a pit, and dug it up, and he shall fall into the ditch which he has made.