Psalms 7:7-17

⁷The meeting of the nations will be round you; take your seat, then, over them, on high.

⁸The Lord will be judge of the peoples; give a decision for me, O Lord, because of my righteousness, and let my virtue have its reward.

⁹O let the evil of the evil-doer come to an end, but give strength to the upright: for men's minds and hearts are tested by the God of righteousness.

¹⁰God, who is the saviour of the upright in heart, is my breastplate.

¹¹God is the judge of the upright, and is angry with the evil-doers every day.

¹²If a man is not turned from his evil, he will make his sword sharp; his bow is bent and ready.

¹³He has made ready for him the instruments of death; he makes his arrows flames of fire.

¹⁴That man is a worker of evil; the seed of wrongdoing has given birth to deceit.

¹⁵He has made a hole deep in the earth, and is falling into the hole which he has made

¹⁶His wrongdoing will come back to him, and his violent behaviour will come down on his head.

¹⁷I will give praise to the Lord for his righteousness; I will make a song to the name of the Lord Most High.