Psalm 7. Domine, Deus meus.

1. O Lord my God, I take refuge in you; *
   save and deliver me from all who pursue me;
2. Lest like a lion they tear me in pieces *
   and snatch me away with none to deliver me.
3. O Lord my God, if I have done these things: *
   if there is any wickedness in my hands,
4. If I have repaid my friend with evil, *
   or plundered him who without cause is my enemy;
5. Then let my enemy pursue and overtake me, *
   trample my life into the ground, and lay my honor in the dust.
6. Stand up, O Lord, in your wrath; *
   rise up against the fury of my enemies.
7. Awake, O my God, decree justice; *
   let the assembly of the peoples gather round you.
8. Be seated on your lofty throne, O Most High; *
   O Lord, judge the nations.
9. Give judgment for me according to my righteousness, O Lord, *
   and according to my innocence, O Most High.
10. Let the malice of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; *
    for you test the mind and heart, O righteous God.
11. God is my shield and defense; *
    he is the savior of the true in heart.
12. God is a righteous judge; *
    God sits in judgment every day.
13. If they will not repent, God will whet his sword; *
    he will bend his bow and make it ready.
14. He has prepared his weapons of death; *
    he makes his arrows shafts of fire.
15. Look at those who are in labor with wickedness, *
    who conceive evil, and give birth to a lie.
16. They dig a pit and make it deep *
    and fall into the hole that they have made.
17. Their malice turns back upon their own head; *
    their violence falls on their own scalp.
18. I will bear witness that the Lord is righteous; *
    I will praise the Name of the Lord Most High.