Psalm 7

Plea for Help against Persecutors

A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning Cush, a Benjaminite.
¹O Lord my God, in you I take refuge;
   save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me,
²or like a lion they will tear me apart;
   they will drag me away, with no one to rescue.

³O Lord my God, if I have done this,
   if there is wrong in my hands,
⁴if I have repaid my ally with harm
   or plundered my foe without cause,
⁵then let the enemy pursue and overtake me,
   trample my life to the ground,
   and lay my soul in the dust.
          Selah

⁶Rise up, O Lord, in your anger;
   lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;
   awake, O my God;^* you have appointed a judgement.
⁷Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered around you,
   and over it take your seat^* on high.
⁸The Lord judges the peoples;
   judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness
   and according to the integrity that is in me.

⁹O let the evil of the wicked come to an end,
   but establish the righteous,
you who test the minds and hearts,
   O righteous God.
¹⁰God is my shield,
   who saves the upright in heart.