Psalms 7
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Psalm 7
Plea for Help against Persecutors
A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning Cush, a Benjaminite.
1 #
Ps 11.1; 31.15 O LORD my God, in you I take refuge;
save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me,
2 #
Ps 17.12; 50.22 or like a lion they will tear me apart;
they will drag me away, with no one to rescue.
3 #
1 Sam 24.11; 2 Sam 16.7 O LORD my God, if I have done this,
if there is wrong in my hands,
4 #
1 Sam 24.7
if 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
6 #
Ps 3.7; 44.23; 94.2 Rise up, O LORD, in your anger;
lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;
awake, O my God;#7.6 Or awake for me you have appointed a judgment.
7 #
Ps 68.18
Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered around you,
and over it take your seat#7.7 Cn: Heb return on high.
8 #
Ps 18.20; 35.24; 96.13 The LORD judges the peoples;
judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness
and according to the integrity that is in me.
9 #
1 Chr 28.9; Ps 34.21; Isa 54.14; Jer 11.20; Rev 2.23 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 #
Ps 18.2; 125.4 God is my shield,
who saves the upright in heart.
11 #
Ps 50.6; Isa 34.2 God is a righteous judge
and a God who has indignation every day.
12 #
Deut 32.41; Ps 21.12; Ezek 3.19; 33.9 If one does not repent, God#7.12 Heb he will whet his sword;
he has bent and strung his bow;
13 #
Ps 64.7
he has prepared his deadly weapons,
making his arrows fiery shafts.
14 #
Isa 59.4; Jas 1.15 See how they conceive evil
and are pregnant with mischief
and bring forth lies.
15 #
Job 4.8; Ps 9.15; Eccl 10.8 They make a pit, digging it out,
and fall into the hole that they have made.
16 #
Est 9.25; Ps 140.9 Their mischief returns upon their own heads,
and on their own heads their violence descends.
17 #
Ps 9.2; 71.15, 16 I will give to the LORD the thanks due to his righteousness
and sing praise to the name of the LORD, the Most High.
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