Psalms 7 / 150
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(In You Do I Take Refuge)A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite.
O Lord my God, in you do I take refuge;
save me from all my pursuers and deliver me,
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lest like a lion they tear my soul apart,
rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.
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O Lord my God, if I have done this,
if there is wrong in my hands,
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if I have repaid my friend with evil
or plundered my enemy without cause,
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let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it,
and let him trample my life to the ground
and lay my glory in the dust. Selah
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Arise, O Lord, in your anger;
lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;
awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.
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Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you;
over it return on high.
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The Lord judges the peoples;
judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness
and according to the integrity that is in me.
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Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end,
and may you establish the righteous--
you who test the minds and hearts,
O righteous God!
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My shield is with God,
who saves the upright in heart.
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God is a righteous judge,
and a God who feels indignation every day.
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If a man does not repent, GodHebrew he will whet his sword;
he has bent and readied his bow;
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he has prepared for him his deadly weapons,
making his arrows fiery shafts.
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Behold, the wicked man conceives evil
and is pregnant with mischief
and gives birth to lies.
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He makes a pit, digging it out,
and falls into the hole that he has made.
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His mischief returns upon his own head,
and on his own skull his violence descends.
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I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness,
and I will sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.