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 which he sang to Yahweh on [the] words of Cush a Ben-jaminite. O Yahweh God my in you I have sought refuge save me from all pursuers my 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 should tear to pieces like a lion self my tearing and there not [is] a deliverer.
3 Yahweh my God, if I have done anything that is wrong,
O Yahweh God my if I have done this if there [is] unrighteousness in hands my.
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 repaid [one who] is at peace with me evil and I have rescued! opposer my 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.
May he pursue an enemy - life my and may he overtake [it] and he may trample to the earth life my and honor my - to the dust may he lay (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!
Arise! O Yahweh - in anger your raise yourself on [the] furi of opposers my and awake! to me justice you have commanded.
7 Gather around you the people of [all] nations, and rule them from where you are in heaven [MTY].
And an assembly of nations may it surround you and over it to the height return!
8 Yahweh, judge the people of [all] nations! And, Yahweh, show that I have done nothing that is wrong.
Yahweh let him judge peoples vindicate me O Yahweh according to righteousness my and according to integrity my 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!
May it come to an end please [the] evil of - wicked [people] and may you establish [the] righteous and [who] tests hearts and kidneys O God righteous.
10 God, you protect me like a shield [protects soldiers] [MET]; you protect all those who are righteous in their inner being.
Shield my [is] on God a deliverer of [people] upright of heart.
11 You judge [everyone] correctly, and every day you punish [wicked people].
God [is] a judge righteous and God [is] indignant on every day.
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 not anyone will repent sword his he will sharpen bow his he has bent and he has prepared it.
13 You are preparing your weapons that kill those whom they strike; the arrows that you will shoot have flaming tips.
And for him he has prepared weapons of death arrows his into burning [things] he will make.
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].
There! he is in labor with wickedness and he conceives mischief and he brings forth falsehood.
15 But when they dig a deep pit [to trap others], they themselves will fall into it.
A pit he digs and he has dug it and he has fallen in [the] pit [which] he made.
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.
It returns mischief his on own head his and on scalp his violence his it comes down.
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 will give thanks to Yahweh according to righteousness his and I will sing praise to [the] name of Yahweh [the] Most High.
