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.
¹⁴See how they conceive evil,
   and are pregnant with mischief,
   and bring forth lies.
¹⁵They make a pit, digging it out,
   and fall into the hole that they have made.
¹⁶Their mischief returns upon their own heads,
   and on their own heads their violence descends.