Psalm 7
Plea for Help against Persecutors
A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning Cush, a Benjaminite.
1 O Lord my God, in you I take refuge;
save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me,(A)
2 or like a lion they will tear me apart;
they will drag me away, with no one to rescue.(B)
3 O Lord my God, if I have done this,
if there is wrong in my hands,(C)
4 if I have repaid my ally with harm
or plundered my foe without cause,(D)
5 then let the enemy pursue and overtake me,
trample my life to the ground,
and lay my soul in the dust. Selah
6 Rise up, O Lord, in your anger;
lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;
awake, O my God;[a] you have appointed a judgment.(E)
7 Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered around you,
and over it take your seat[b] on high.(F)
8 The Lord judges the peoples;
judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness
and according to the integrity that is in me.(G)
9 O let the evil of the wicked come to an end,
but establish the righteous,
you who test the minds and hearts,
O righteous God.(H)
10 God is my shield,
who saves the upright in heart.(I)
11 God is a righteous judge
and a God who has indignation every day.(J)
12 If one does not repent, God[c] will whet his sword;
he has bent and strung his bow;(K)
13 he has prepared his deadly weapons,
making his arrows fiery shafts.(L)
14 See how they conceive evil
and are pregnant with mischief
and bring forth lies.(M)
15 They make a pit, digging it out,
and fall into the hole that they have made.(N)
16 Their mischief returns upon their own heads,
and on their own heads their violence descends.(O)
17 I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness
and sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.(P)
Footnotes
Cross references
- 7.1 : Ps 11.1; 31.15
- 7.2 : Ps 17.12; 50.22
- 7.3 : 1 Sam 24.11; 2 Sam 16.7
- 7.4 : 1 Sam 24.7
- 7.6 : Ps 3.7; 44.23; 94.2
- 7.7 : Ps 68.18
- 7.8 : Ps 18.20; 35.24; 96.13
- 7.9 : 1 Chr 28.9; Ps 34.21; Isa 54.14; Jer 11.20; Rev 2.23
- 7.10 : Ps 18.2; 125.4
- 7.11 : Ps 50.6; Isa 34.2
- 7.12 : Deut 32.41; Ps 21.12; Ezek 3.19; 33.9
- 7.13 : Ps 64.7
- 7.14 : Isa 59.4; Jas 1.15
- 7.15 : Job 4.8; Ps 9.15; Eccl 10.8
- 7.16 : Esth 9.25; Ps 140.9
- 7.17 : Ps 9.2; 71.15, 16