Psalm 7

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.