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7:1  I take refuge in you, Lord, my God. Save me from all who chase me! Rescue me!
7:2  Otherwise, they will rip me apart, dragging me off with no chance of rescue.
7:3  Lord, my God, if I have done this— if my hands have done anything wrong,
7:4  if I have repaid a friend with evil or oppressed a foe for no reason—
7:5  then let my enemy not only chase but catch me, trampling my life into the ground, laying my reputation in the dirt. Selah
7:6  Get up, Lord; get angry! Stand up against the fury of my foes! Wake up, my God; you command that justice be done!
7:7  Let the assembled peoples surround you. Rule them from on high!
7:8  The Lord will judge the peoples. Establish justice for me, Lord, according to my righteousness and according to my integrity.
7:9  Please let the evil of the wicked be over, but set the righteous firmly in place because you, the righteous God, are the one who examines hearts and minds.
7:10  God is my shield; he saves those whose heart is right.
7:11  God is a righteous judge, a God who is angry at evil every single day.
7:12  If someone doesn’t change their ways, God will sharpen his sword, will bend his bow, will string an arrow.
7:13  God has deadly weapons in store for those who won’t change; he gets his flaming arrows ready!
7:14  But look how the wicked hatch evil, conceive trouble, give birth to lies!
7:15  They make a pit, dig it all out, and then fall right into the hole that they’ve made!
7:16  The trouble they cause will come back on their own heads; the violence they commit will come down on their own skulls.
7:17  But I will thank the Lord for his righteousness; I will sing praises to the name of the Lord Most High.