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7:1  A plaintive song of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning Cush, a Benjaminite.
7:2  O Lord, my God, I take refuge in you; keep me safe from all my pursuers and deliver me,
7:3  lest like a lion they tear me to pieces and carry me off, with no one to rescue me.
7:4  O Lord, my God, if I have done this, if my hands are stained with guilt,
7:5  if I have repaid a friend with treachery— I who spared the lives of those who without cause were my enemies—
7:6  then let my foe pursue and overtake me; let him trample my life into the ground and leave my honor in the dust. Selah
7:7  Rise up, O Lord, in your indignation; rise against the fury of my enemies. Rouse yourself for me, and fulfill the judgment you have decreed.
7:8  Let the peoples assemble in your presence as you sit above them enthroned on high.
7:9  The Lord is the judge of the nations. Therefore, pass judgment on me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, according to my innocence, O Most High.
7:10  Put an end to the malice of the wicked but continue to sustain the righteous, O God of justice, you who search minds and hearts.
7:11  God is a shield to me; he saves those who are upright of heart.
7:12  God is a just judge, a God who expresses his indignation every day.
7:13  When a sinner refuses to repent, God sharpens his sword, and he bends and aims his bow.
7:14  He has prepared deadly weapons for him and made his arrows into fiery shafts.
7:15  Behold, he who conceives iniquity and is pregnant with mischief will give birth to lies.
7:16  He digs a pit and makes it deep, but he will fall into the trap he has made.
7:17  His wickedness will recoil upon his own head, and his violence will fall back on his own crown.
7:18  I will offer thanks to the Lord because of his righteousness, and I will sing hymns of praise to the name of the Lord Most High.