1.6 KiB
Psalm 7
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I come to you for protection, O LORD my God. Save me from my persecutors--rescue me!
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If you don't, they will maul me like a lion,
tearing me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
- O LORD my God, if I have done wrong
or am guilty of injustice,
- if I have betrayed a friend
or plundered my enemy without cause,
- then let my enemies capture me.
Let them trample me into the ground
and drag my honor in the dust. Interlude
- Arise, O LORD, in anger!
Stand up against the fury of my enemies!
Wake up, my God, and bring justice!
- Gather the nations before you.
Rule over them from on high.
- The LORD judges the nations. Declare me righteous, O LORD,
for I am innocent, O Most High!
- End the evil of those who are wicked,
and defend the righteous.
For you look deep within the mind and heart,
O righteous God.
- God is my shield,
saving those whose hearts are true and right.
- God is an honest judge.
He is angry with the wicked every day.
- If a person does not repent, God will sharpen his sword;
he will bend and string his bow.
- He will prepare his deadly weapons
and shoot his flaming arrows.
- The wicked conceive evil;
they are pregnant with trouble
and give birth to lies.
- They dig a deep pit to trap others,
then fall into it themselves.
- The trouble they make for others backfires on them.
The violence they plan falls on their own heads.
- I will thank the LORD because he is just; I will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.