Psalms 7 — LXXSA

A Psalm of David, which he sang to the Lord because of the words of Chusi the⁺Benjamite.

7Verse 1O Lord my God, in you have I trusted: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me.
^{Verse 2}Lest at any time the enemy seize my soul as a lion, while there is none to ransom, nor to save.
^{Verse 3}O Lord my God, if I have done this; (if there is unrighteousness in my hands;)
^{Verse 4}if I have requited with evil those who requited me with good; may I then perish empty by means of my enemies.
^{Verse 5}Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; and let him trample my life on the ground, and lay my glory in the dust. Pause.
^{Verse 6}Arise, O Lord, in your wrath; be exalted⁺in the utmost boundaries of my enemies: awake, O Lord my God, according to the decree which you did command.
^{Verse 7}And the congregation of the nations shall compass you: and for this cause do you return on high.
^{Verse 8}The Lord shall judge the nations: judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, and according to my innocence that is in me.
^{Verse 9}Oh let the wickedness of sinners come to an end; and then you shall direct the righteous, O God that search the hearts and reins.
^{Verse 10}My help is righteous, coming from God who saves the upright in heart.
^{Verse 11}God is a righteous judge, and strong, and patient, not inflicting vengeance every day.
^{Verse 12}If you⌃ will not repent, he will furbish his sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready.
^{Verse 13}And on it he has fitted the instruments of death; he has completed his arrows for the⁺raging ones.
^{Verse 14}Behold, he has travailed with unrighteousness, he has conceived trouble, and brought forth iniquity.
^{Verse 15}He has opened a pit, and dug it up, and he shall fall into the ditch which he has made.
^{Verse 16}His trouble shall return on his own head, and his unrighteousness shall come down on his own crown.
^{Verse 17}I will give thanks to the Lord according to his righteousness; I will sing to the name of the Lord most high.