Psalms 7
1 Yahweh my God, I come to you to protect me. Rescue me, save me from all those who are pursuing me [in order to harm me].
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 If you do not do that, they will tear me into pieces like a lion does [when it attacks the animals it wants to kill], and no one will save me [from them].
Lest he tear my soul as a lion, Tearing, and there is no deliverer.
3 Yahweh my God, if I have done anything that is wrong,
O YHWH, my God, if I have done this, If there is iniquity in my hands,
4 if I have done evil to some friend who did good things to me, or if, for no good reason, I have spared (OR, acted violently toward) those who were my enemies,
If I have done my well-wisher evil, And draw my adversary without cause,
5 allow my enemies to pursue me and capture me. Allow them to trample me into the ground and leave me [SYN] [lying dead] in the dirt.
[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 But Yahweh, because you are [very] angry [with those who pursue me], arise and attack/defeat my enemies who are furiously/angrily [attacking me] Do to them what is just!
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 Gather around you the people of [all] nations, and rule them from where you are in heaven [MTY].
And a congregation of peoples surround You, And over it turn back on high.
8 Yahweh, judge the people of [all] nations! And, Yahweh, show that I have done nothing that is wrong.
YHWH judges the peoples; Judge me, O YHWH, According to my righteousness, And according to my integrity [that is] on me.
9 God, you know what every person is thinking, and because you are righteous, you [always] do what is just/right. [So now] stop evil people from doing wicked [deeds], and defend [all of us who are] righteous!
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 God, you protect me like a shield [protects soldiers] [MET]; you protect all those who are righteous in their inner being.
My shield [is] on God, Savior of the upright in heart!
11 You judge [everyone] correctly, and every day you punish [wicked people].
God [is] judging right, And He is not angry at all times.
12 Whenever your enemies do not (repent/change their behavior), [it is as though] [MET] you sharpen your sword and put a string on your bow [to get ready to kill them].
If [one] does not turn, He sharpens His sword, He has bent His bow [and] He prepares it,
13 You are preparing your weapons that kill those whom they strike; the arrows that you will shoot have flaming tips.
Indeed, He has prepared for Himself Instruments of death, He makes His arrows for burning pursuers.
14 Wicked people tell lies, and they think that they surely will be able to do [MET] the evil things that they are planning to do [just as surely as] a pregnant woman [knows that she is going to give birth to a child] [MET].
Behold, he travails [with] iniquity, And he has conceived perverseness, And has brought forth falsehood.
15 But when they dig a deep pit [to trap others], they themselves will fall into it.
He has prepared a pit, and he digs it, And he falls into a ditch he makes.
16 They themselves will experience the trouble that they want to cause others to have; they will hurt themselves by the violent things that they want to do to others.
His perverseness returns on his head, And his violence comes down on his crown.
17 I praise Yahweh because he [always acts] righteously/justly; I sing to praise Yahweh, the one who is much greater than any other god.
I thank YHWH, According to His righteousness, And I praise the Name of YHWH Most High!
