Psalms 7:3-16

³Lord, my God, if my life has been such if my hands have been stained with guilt,

⁴if friends I paid back with evil, if I plundered my foes without cause,

⁵may the enemy chase and find me, trample my life to the ground, my honour leave in the dirt! Selah

⁶Arise, Lord, in anger, against my foes rise in fury. Awake for my help: let justice be done.

⁷Gather the nations about you, and sit on your lofty throne,

⁸as the Lord, the judge of the peoples. Judge me, Lord, in my innocence and according to my integrity.

⁹Put an end to the wrong of the wicked, protect the righteous. Searcher of hearts and minds, righteous God.

¹⁰God is my shield: he saves the upright in heart.

¹¹God is a just judge, constant in righteous anger.

¹²He will sharpen his sword without fail, his bow is bent and ready,

¹³his deadly weapons are ready, his arrows he makes of flame.

¹⁴The enemy who conceives evil; pregnant with mischief, giving birth to lies,

¹⁵a pit they have made and dug; but into the hole that they made they will fall.

¹⁶On their own heads their mischief comes back; on their own skulls their violence comes down.