^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.