7:1 [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, 7:2 lest like a lion they tear my soul apart, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver. 7:3 O LORD my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands, 7:4 if I have repaid my friend with evil or plundered my enemy without cause, 7:5 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 7:6 Arise, O LORD, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake for me; you have appointed a judgment. 7:7 Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you; over it return on high. 7:8 The LORD judges the peoples; judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me. 7:9 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! 7:10 My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart. 7:11 God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day. 7:12 If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and readied his bow; 7:13 he has prepared for him his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts. 7:14 Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies. 7:15 He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole that he has made. 7:16 His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own skull his violence descends. 7:17 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.