Psalms - Chapter 7 - New International Version
- LORD my God, I take refuge in you; save and deliver me from all who pursue me,
- or they will tear me apart like a lion and rip me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
- LORD my God, if I have done this and there is guilt on my hands —
- if I have repaid my ally with evil or without cause have robbed my foe —
- then let my enemy pursue and overtake me; let him trample my life to the ground and make me sleep in the dust. [^
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- Arise, LORD, in your anger; rise up against the rage of my enemies. Awake, my God; decree justice.
- Let the assembled peoples gather around you, while you sit enthroned over them on high.
- Let the LORD judge the peoples. Vindicate me, LORD, according to my righteousness, according to my integrity, O Most High.
- Bring to an end the violence of the wicked and make the righteous secure — you, the righteous God who probes minds and hearts.
- My shield "is God Most High, who saves the upright in heart.
- God is a righteous judge, a God who displays his wrath every day.
- If he does not relent, he "will sharpen his sword; he will bend and string his bow.
- He has prepared his deadly weapons; he makes ready his flaming arrows.
- Whoever is pregnant with evil conceives trouble and gives birth to disillusionment.
- Whoever digs a hole and scoops it out falls into the pit they have made.
- The trouble they cause recoils on them; their violence comes down on their own heads.
- I will give thanks to the LORD because of his righteousness; I will sing the praises of the name of the LORD Most High.