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7:1  I am depending on you, O Lord my God, to save me from my persecutors.
7:2  Don’t let them pounce upon me as a lion would and maul me and drag me away with no one to rescue me.
7:3  It would be different, Lord, if I were doing evil things—
7:4  if I were paying back evil for good or unjustly attacking those I dislike.
7:5  Then it would be right for you to let my enemies destroy me, crush me to the ground, and trample my life in the dust.
7:6  But Lord! Arise in anger against the anger of my enemies. Awake! Demand justice for me, Lord!
7:7  Gather all peoples before you; sit high above them, judging their sins. But justify me publicly; establish my honor and truth before them all.
7:8  Gather all peoples before you; sit high above them, judging their sins. But justify me publicly; establish my honor and truth before them all.
7:9  End all wickedness, O Lord, and bless all who truly worship God; for you, the righteous God, look deep within the hearts of men and examine all their motives and their thoughts.
7:10  God is my shield; he will defend me. He saves those whose hearts and lives are true and right.
7:11  God is a judge who is perfectly fair, and he is angry with the wicked every day.
7:12  Unless they repent, he will sharpen his sword and slay them. He has bent and strung his bow
7:13  and fitted it with deadly arrows made from shafts of fire.
7:14  The wicked man conceives an evil plot, labors with its dark details, and brings to birth his treachery and lies;
7:15  let him fall into his own trap.
7:16  May the violence he plans for others boomerang upon himself; let him die.
7:17  Oh, how grateful and thankful I am to the Lord because he is so good. I will sing praise to the name of the Lord who is above all lords.