To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments; according to The Sheminith. A Psalm of David.
[7:1] O Lord my God, in you do I take refuge; save me from all my pursuers and deliver me,
[7:2] lest like a lion they tear my soul apart, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.
[7:3] O Lord my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,
[7:4] if I have repaid my friend with evil or plundered my enemy without cause,
[7:5] let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it, and let him trample my life to the ground and lay my glory in the dust.
[7:6] Arise, O Lord, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.
[7:7] Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you; over it return on high.
[7:8] The Lord judges the peoples; judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.
[7:9] Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous— you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God!
[7:10] My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.
[7:11] God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day.
[7:12] If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and readied his bow;
[7:13] he has prepared for him his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts.
[7:14] Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies.
[7:15] He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole that he has made.
[7:16] His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own skull his violence descends.
[7:17] I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.