International Standard Version
Psalm 7
1 LORD, my God, I seek refuge in you. Deliver me from those who persecute me! Rescue me!
2 Otherwise, they will rip me to shreds like a lion, tearing me b apart with no one to rescue me. c
3 LORD, my God, if I have done this thing, if there is injustice on my hands,
4 if I have rewarded those who did me good with evil, if I have plundered my enemy without justification,
5 then, let my enemy pursue me, let him overtake me, and let him trample my life to the ground. Interlude Let him put my honor into the dust.
6 Get up, LORD, in your anger! Rise up, because of the fury of my enemies; Arouse yourself for me; you have ordained justice.
7 Let the assembly of the peoples gather around you, and you will sit d high above them.
8 For the LORD will judge the peoples. Judge me according to my righteousness, LORD, and according to my integrity, Exalted One.
9 Let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous. For you are the righteous God who discerns the inner thoughts. e
10 God is my shield, f the one who delivers the upright in heart.
11 God is a righteous judge, a God who is angry with sinners g every day.
12 If the ungodly one h doesn’t repent, God will sharpen his sword; he will string his bow and prepare it.
13 He prepares weapons of death for himself, he makes his arrows into fiery shafts.
14 But the wicked one i travails with evil, he conceives malice and gives birth to lies.
15 He digs a pit, even excavates it; then he fell into the hole that he had made.
16 The trouble j he planned will return on his own head, and his violence will descend on his skull.
17 But as for me, I will praise the LORD for his righteousness, and I will sing to the name of the LORD Most High.