Psalm 7: Domine, Deus meus

O LORD my God, I take refuge in you; *

save and deliver me from all who pursue me;

Lest like a lion they tear me in pieces *

and snatch me away with none to deliver me.

O LORD my God, if I have done these things: *

if there is any wickedness in my hands,

If I have repaid my friend with evil, *

or plundered him who without cause is my enemy;

Then let my enemy pursue and overtake me, *

trample my life into the ground,

and lay my honor in the dust.

Stand up, O LORD, in your wrath; *

rise up against the fury of my enemies.

Awake, O my God, decree justice; *

let the assembly of the peoples gather round you.

Be seated on your lofty throne, O Most High; *

O LORD, judge the nations.

Give judgment for me according to my righteousness, O LORD, *

and according to my innocence, O Most High.

Let the malice of the wicked come to an end,

but establish the righteous; *

for you test the mind and heart, O righteous God.

God is my shield and defense; *

he is the savior of the true in heart.

God is a righteous judge; *

God sits in judgment every day.

If they will not repent, God will whet his sword; *

he will bend his bow and make it ready.

He has prepared his weapons of death; *

he makes his arrows shafts of fire.

Look at those who are in labor with wickedness, *

who conceive evil, and give birth to a lie.

They dig a pit and make it deep *

and fall into the hole that they have made.

Their malice turns back upon their own head; *

their violence falls on their own scalp.

I will bear witness that the LORD is righteous; *

I will praise the Name of the LORD Most High.