Psalms 7

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1

O LORD my God, I take refuge in You; save me and deliver me from all my pursuers,

2

or they will shred my soul like a lion and tear me to pieces with no one to rescue me.

3

O LORD my God, if I have done this, if injustice is on my hands,

4

if I have rewarded my ally with evil, if I have plundered my foe without cause,

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then may my enemy pursue me and overtake me; may he trample me to the ground and leave my honor in the dust. Selah

6

Arise, O LORD, in Your anger; rise up against the fury of my enemies. Awake, my God, and ordain judgment.

7

Let the assembled peoples gather around You; take Your seat over them on high.

8

The LORD judges the peoples; vindicate me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and integrity.

9

Put an end to the evil of the wicked, but establish the righteous, O righteous God who searches hearts and minds.

10

My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.

11

God is a righteous judge and a God who feels indignation each day.

12

If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.

13

He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire.

14

Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.

15

He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.

16

His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.

17

I will thank the LORD for His righteousness and sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.

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English: Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Grammar from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). Sentence structure and references from MACULA Greek and Hebrew (Biblica / Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meaning groups from the UBS MARBLE Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Greek, based on Louw & Nida. Words marked with a dotted line are found in only some manuscripts.