Psalms 7

7 ¹ O my Father, in you I take refuge; save me from all who pursue me, and deliver me, ² lest he tear me apart like a lion, ripping me to pieces with no one to rescue. ³ O my Father, if I have done this — if there is wrong on my hands, ⁴ if I have repaid my ally with evil, or plundered my enemy without cause — ⁵ then let the enemy pursue me and overtake me, let him trample my life to the ground and lay my honor in the dust. Selah

⁶ Arise, my Father, in your anger; rise up against the fury of my enemies; wake up for me — you have appointed judgment. ⁷ Let the assembly of peoples gather around you; take your seat on high over them. ⁸ Our Father judges the peoples. Vindicate me, my Father, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me. ⁹ Bring the evil of the wicked to an end, but uphold the righteous — you who search minds and hearts, O righteous Father. ¹⁰ My shield is my Father, who saves the upright in heart. ¹¹ Our Father is a righteous judge, our Father who is indignant every day. ¹² If anyone does not repent, he will sharpen his sword; he has drawn his bow and made it ready. ¹³ He has prepared his deadly weapons; he makes his arrows into flaming shafts. ¹⁴ See how the wicked man is pregnant with evil; he conceives trouble and gives birth to lies. ¹⁵ He digs a pit and hollows it out, but falls into the hole he has made. ¹⁶ His trouble comes back on his own head; his violence comes down on his own skull. ¹⁷ I will give thanks to my Father for his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of my Father, the Most High.