Heart of God Saturdays: Psalm 7

Psalm 7 (English Standard Version)

A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite.

¹O LORD my God, in you do I take refuge;
save me from all my pursuers and deliver me,
²lest like a lion they tear my soul apart,
rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.

³O LORD my God, if I have done this,
if there is wrong in my hands,
⁴if I have repaid my friend with evil
or plundered my enemy without cause,
⁵let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it,
and let him trample my life to the ground
and lay my glory in the dust.
Selah

⁶Arise, O LORD, in your anger;
lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;
awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.
⁷Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you;
over it return on high.

⁸The LORD judges the peoples;
judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness
and according to the integrity that is in me.
⁹Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end,
and may you establish the righteous—
you who test the minds and hearts,
O righteous God!
¹⁰My shield is with God,
who saves the upright in heart.
¹¹God is a righteous judge,
and a God who feels indignation every day.

¹²If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword;
he has bent and readied his bow;
¹³he has prepared for him his deadly weapons,
making his arrows fiery shafts.
¹⁴Behold, the wicked man conceives evil
and is pregnant with mischief
and gives birth to lies.
¹⁵He makes a pit, digging it out,
and falls into the hole that he has made.
¹⁶His mischief returns upon his own head,
and on his own skull his violence descends.

¹⁷I will give to the LORD the thanks due to his righteousness,
and I will sing praise to the name of the LORD, the Most High.