Psalm 7 - ESV Bible - O LORD my God, in you do I take refuge; save me...

In You Do I Take Refuge

1 O LORD my God, in you do I ¹take refuge; ²save me from all my pursuers and deliver me,

2 lest like ³a lion they tear my soul apart, rending it in pieces, with ⁴none to deliver.

3 O LORD my God, ⁵if I have done this, if there is ⁶wrong in my hands,

4 if I have repaid ⁷my friend^a with evil or ⁸plundered my enemy without cause,

5 let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it, and let him ⁹trample my life to the ground and lay my glory in the dust. Selah

6 ¹⁰Arise, O LORD, in your anger; ¹¹lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; ¹²awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.

7 Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you; over it return on high.

8 The LORD ¹³judges the peoples; ¹⁴judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.

9 Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous-- you who ¹⁵test ¹⁶the minds and hearts,^b O righteous God!

10 My shield is ¹⁷with God, who saves ¹⁸the upright in heart.

11 God is ¹⁹a righteous judge, and a God who feels ²⁰indignation every day.

12 If a man^c does not repent, God^d will ²¹whet his sword; he has ²²bent and ²³readied his bow;

13 he has prepared for him his deadly weapons, making his ²⁴arrows ²⁵fiery shafts.

14 Behold, the wicked man ²⁶conceives evil and is ²⁷pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies.

15 He makes ²⁸a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole that he has made.

16 His ²⁹mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own skull his violence descends.

17 I will give to the LORD the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will ³⁰sing praise to the name of the LORD, the Most High.