Psalms 7
Psalm 7
In You I Have Taken Refuge
A ▼▼Possibly a wild, passionate, and animated songShiggaion of David, which he sang to Yahweh concerning the words of Cush, a Benjamite.
1O Yahweh my God, in You I have taken refuge;Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,
2Lest he tear ▼
▼Or me
my soul like a lion,Rending me in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
3O Yahweh my God, if I have done this,
If there is injustice in my hands,
4If I have rewarded evil to him who ▼
▼Lit was
is at peace with me,Or have plundered my adversary without cause,
5Let the enemy pursue ▼
▼Or me
my soul and overtake ▼▼Or me
it;And let him trample my life down to the ground
And cause my glory to dwell in the dust. ▼
▼Selah may mean Pause, Crescendo, Musical Interlude
Selah.6Arise, O Yahweh, in Your anger;
Lift up Yourself against the fury of my adversaries,
And arouse Yourself ▼
▼One ancient version O my God
for me; You have appointed judgment.7Let the congregation of the peoples encompass You,
And over ▼
▼Lit it
them return on high.8Yahweh judges the peoples;
▼
▼ Lit Judge
Give justice to me, O Yahweh, according to my righteousness and my integrity that is in me.9O let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous;
For the righteous God tests the hearts and ▼
▼Lit kidneys, figurative for inner man
minds.10My shield is ▼
▼Lit upon
with God,Who saves the upright in heart.
11God is a righteous judge,
And a God who has indignation every day.
12If ▼
▼Lit he
a man does not repent, He will sharpen His sword;He has bent His bow and prepared it.
13He has also prepared ▼
▼Or His deadly weapons
for Himself deadly weapons;He makes His arrows fiery shafts.
14Behold, he travails with wickedness,
And he conceives mischief and gives birth to falsehood.
15He has dug a pit and hollowed it out,
And has fallen into the hole which he made.
16His mischief will return upon his own head,
And his violence will descend upon ▼
▼The crown of his own head
his own skull.17I will give thanks to Yahweh according to His righteousness
And will sing praise to the name of Yahweh Most High.
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