Psalms 7
1 A SHIGGAION OF DAVID, THAT HE SUNG TO YHWH CONCERNING THE WORDS OF CUSH, A BENJAMITE. O YHWH, my God, in You I have trusted, Save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me.
A Psalm of David, which he sang to the Lord because of the words of Chusi the Benjamite. O Lord my God, in you have I trusted: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me.
2 Lest he tear my soul as a lion, Tearing, and there is no deliverer.
Lest at any time [the enemy] seize my soul as a lion, while there is none to ransom, nor to save.
3 O YHWH, my God, if I have done this, If there is iniquity in my hands,
O Lord my God, if I have done this; (if there is unrighteousness in my hands; )
4 If I have done my well-wisher evil, And draw my adversary without cause,
if I have requited with evil those who requited me [with good]; may I then perish empty by means of my enemies.
5 [Then] an enemy pursues my soul, and overtakes, And treads down my life to the earth, And places my glory in the dust. (Selah)
Let the enemy persecute my soul, an take it; and let him trample my life on the ground, and lay my glory in the dust. (Pause)
6 Rise, O YHWH, in Your anger, Be lifted up at the wrath of my adversaries, And awake Yourself for me: You have commanded judgment.
Arise, O Lord, in your wrath; be exalted in the utmost boundaries of mine enemies: awake, O Lord my God, according to the decree which you did command.
7 And a congregation of peoples surround You, And over it turn back on high.
And the congregation of the nations shall compass you: and for this cause do you return on high.
8 YHWH judges the peoples; Judge me, O YHWH, According to my righteousness, And according to my integrity [that is] on me.
The Lord shall judge the nations: judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, and according to my innocence that is in me.
9 Please let the evil of the wicked be ended, And establish the righteous, And a trier of hearts and reins is the righteous God.
Oh let the wickedness of sinners come to an end; and [then] you shall direct the righteous, O God that search the hearts and reins.
10 My shield [is] on God, Savior of the upright in heart!
My help is righteous, [coming] from God who saves the upright in heart.
11 God [is] judging right, And He is not angry at all times.
God is a righteous judge, and strong, and patient, not inflicting vengeance every day.
12 If [one] does not turn, He sharpens His sword, He has bent His bow [and] He prepares it,
If you will not repent, he will furbish his sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready.
13 Indeed, He has prepared for Himself Instruments of death, He makes His arrows for burning pursuers.
And on it he has fitted the instruments of death; he has completed his arrows for the raging ones.
14 Behold, he travails [with] iniquity, And he has conceived perverseness, And has brought forth falsehood.
Behold, he has travailed with unrighteousness, he has conceived trouble, and brought forth iniquity.
15 He has prepared a pit, and he digs it, And he falls into a ditch he makes.
He has opened a pit, and dug it up, and he shall fall into the ditch which he has made.
16 His perverseness returns on his head, And his violence comes down on his crown.
His trouble shall return on his own head, and his unrighteousness shall come down on his own crown.
17 I thank YHWH, According to His righteousness, And I praise the Name of YHWH Most High!
I will give thanks to the Lord according to his righteousness; I will sing to the name of the Lord most high.
