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Psalms Chapter 7

1aA Psalm of David of pre-eminence, which he sang to the Lord about the words of Cush the Benjaminite.

1bO Lord my God, I have put my trust in you.

Save me from all those who pursue me,

And deliver me,

2Lest he, like a lion, tears my body in pieces,

Crushing me,

With no-one to deliver me.

3O Lord my God,

If I have done this,

If there is any injustice in my hands,

4If I have requited evil to anyone at peace with me,

Or if I have spoiled my adversary gratuitously,

5Then let my enemy pursue me to the death

And catch up with me

And trample on my life on the ground

And place my honour in the dust.

Selah.

6Arise, O Lord, in your anger;

Raise yourself at the haughtiness of my adversaries,

And rouse yourself for me by executing the justice

Which you have commanded.

7When the congregation of the various peoples surrounds you,

Return on high above them.

8The Lord will judge various peoples;

Judge me, O Lord,

According to my righteousness

And my personal integrity.

9Please may the evil of the wicked come to an end,

And may you establish the just,

When the righteous God tests hearts and kidneys.

10My shield is by means of trust in God,

Who saves the upright in heart.

11God judges the just man,

But God is indignant every day.

12He certainly will return

And sharpen his sword.

He draws his bow

And aims it.

13He has also prepared his deadly weapons;

He has fashioned his arrows into burning ones.

14Look how my enemy is giving birth to iniquity

And has conceived vice

And borne falsehood.

15He has dug a hole

And hollowed it out,

But he has fallen into the pit

Which he made.

16His vice will return on his head,

And his violence will descend on his crown.

17I will praise the Lord according to his righteousness,

And I will sing psalms to the name of the Most High, the Lord.

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