Psalms 7:3-14

³O Lord my God, if I have done this; (if there is unrighteousness in my hands;)

⁴if I have requited with evil those who requited me with good; may I then perish empty by means of my enemies.

⁵Let the enemy persecute my soul, an take it; and let him trample my life on the ground, and lay my glory in the dust. Pause.

⁶Arise, O Lord, in your wrath; be exalted in the utmost boundaries of my enemies: awake, O Lord my God, according to the decree which you did command.

⁷And the congregation of the nations shall compass you: and for this cause do you return on high.

⁸The Lord shall judge the nations: judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, and according to my innocence that is in me.

⁹Oh let the wickedness of sinners come to an end; and then you shall direct the righteous, O God that search the hearts and reins.

¹⁰My help is righteous, coming from God who saves the upright in heart.

¹¹God is a righteous judge, and strong, and patient, not inflicting vengeance every day.

¹²If you° will not repent, he will furbish his sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready.

¹³And on it he has fitted the instruments of death; he has completed his arrows for the raging ones.

¹⁴Behold, he has travailed with unrighteousness, he has conceived trouble, and brought forth iniquity.