Psalm 7

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹ O Lord my God, in you I take refuge.
Save me from all my pursuers and deliver me.
² Otherwise, like a lion they will tear me apart.
They will drag me away with no one to rescue me.
³ O Lord my God, if I have done this,
if there is injustice in my hands,
⁴ if I have done evil to anyone who is at peace with me,
or if I have robbed my foe for no reason,
⁵ then let an enemy pursue my life and overtake me.
Let him trample my life to the ground
and make my glory dwell in the dust. Interlude

⁶ Stand up, O Lord, in your anger.
Rise up against the fury of my foes.
Awake for me. You have commanded justice.^[b]
7 A crowd of peoples surrounds you.
Turn against them from on high.
⁸ Let the Lord judge the peoples.
Acquit me, O Lord, according to my righteousness,
according to my integrity which is in me.
⁹ The evil of the wicked will come to an end,
but you will establish the righteous.
You search minds and hearts,^[c] O righteous God.

¹⁰ My shield is God, who saves the upright in heart.
¹¹ God, the judge, is righteous,
but he is a God who expresses his wrath every day.
¹² If he^[d] does not relent,
    the Lord^[e] will sharpen his sword.
    He has bent his bow and will string it.
¹³     He prepares his deadly weapons.
    He will make his arrows flames.

¹⁴ Yes, whoever conceives evil and is pregnant with trouble
    will give birth to disappointment.^[f]
15 He digs a pit and scoops it out,
and he will fall into the hole he has made.
¹⁶ The trouble he causes comes back on his own head.
His violence comes down on top of his own skull.

¹⁷ I will thank the Lord because of his righteousness,
and I will make music to the name of the Lord Most High.