< 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.
2 Lest he tear my soul as a lion, Tearing, and there is no deliverer.
3 O YHWH, my God, if I have done this, If there is iniquity in my hands,
4 If I have done my well-wisher evil, And draw my adversary without cause,
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)
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.
7 And a congregation of peoples surround You, And over it turn back on high.
8 YHWH judges the peoples; Judge me, O YHWH, According to my righteousness, And according to my integrity [that is] on 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.
10 My shield [is] on God, Savior of the upright in heart!
11 God [is] judging right, And He is not angry at all times.
12 If [one] does not turn, He sharpens His sword, He has bent His bow [and] He prepares it,
13 Indeed, He has prepared for Himself Instruments of death, He makes His arrows for burning pursuers.
14 Behold, he travails [with] iniquity, And he has conceived perverseness, And has brought forth falsehood.
15 He has prepared a pit, and he digs it, And he falls into a ditch he makes.
16 His perverseness returns on his head, And his violence comes down on his crown.
17 I thank YHWH, According to His righteousness, And I praise the Name of YHWH Most High!
