Psalm 7

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Psalm 7 (NRSV)

A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning Cush, a Benjaminite.

1 O Lord my God, in you I take refuge;
    save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me,
2 or like a lion they will tear me apart;
    they will drag me away, with no one to rescue.

3 O Lord my God, if I have done this,
    if there is wrong in my hands,
4 if I have repaid my ally with harm
    or plundered my foe without cause,
5 then let the enemy pursue and overtake me,
    trample my life to the ground,
    and lay my soul in the dust.Selah

6 Rise up, O Lord, in your anger;
    lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;
    awake, O my God; you have appointed a judgment.
7 Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered around you,
    and over it take your seat on high.
8 The Lord judges the peoples;
    judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness
    and according to the integrity that is in me.

9 O let the evil of the wicked come to an end,
    but establish the righteous,
you who test the minds and hearts,
    O righteous God.
10 God is my shield,
    who saves the upright in heart.
11 God is a righteous judge,
    and a God who has indignation every day.

12 If one does not repent, God will whet his sword;
    he has bent and strung his bow;
13 he has prepared his deadly weapons,
    making his arrows fiery shafts.
14 See how they conceive evil,
    and are pregnant with mischief,
    and bring forth lies.
15 They make a pit, digging it out,
    and fall into the hole that they have made.
16 Their mischief returns upon their own heads,
    and on their own heads their violence descends.

17 I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness,
    and sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.