Psalm 7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Psalm 7 Plea for Help against Persecutors

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

¹ O Lord my God, in you I take refuge; save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me,

² or like a lion they will tear me apart; they will drag me away, with no one to rescue.

³ O Lord my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,

⁴ if I have repaid my ally with harm or plundered my foe without cause,

⁵ then let the enemy pursue and overtake me, trample my life to the ground, and lay my soul in the dust. Selah

⁶ Rise up, O Lord, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake, O my God; you have appointed a judgment.

⁷ Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered around you, and over it take your seat on high.

⁸ The Lord judges the peoples; judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.

⁹ O let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous, you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God.

¹⁰ God is my shield, who saves the upright in heart.

¹¹ God is a righteous judge and a God who has indignation every day.

¹² If one does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and strung his bow;

¹³ he has prepared his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts.

¹⁴ See how they conceive evil and are pregnant with mischief and bring forth lies.

¹⁵ They make a pit, digging it out, and fall into the hole that they have made.

¹⁶ Their mischief returns upon their own heads, and on their own heads their violence descends.

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