Psalm 7
7
In You Do I Take Refuge
A #Hab. 3:1Shiggaion#7:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite.
1O Lord my God, in you do I #See Ps. 11:1 take refuge;
#
Ps. 31:15
save me from all my pursuers and deliver me,
2lest like #See Job 10:16 a lion they tear my soul apart,
rending it in pieces, with #Ps. 50:22none to deliver.
3O Lord my God, #[2 Sam. 16:7, 8] if I have done this,
if there is #1 Sam. 24:11; 26:18; [Ps. 59:3]wrong in my hands,
4if I have repaid #Ps. 55:20 my friend#7:4 Hebrew the one at peace with me with evil
or #1 Sam. 24:7; 26:9plundered my enemy without cause,
5let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it,
and let him #Dan. 8:7; [Ps. 89:39]trample my life to the ground
and lay my glory in the dust. Selah
6 # See Ps. 3:7 Arise, O Lord, in your anger;
#
Ps. 94:2; Isa. 33:10 lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;
#
Ps. 35:23; 44:23; 59:4; Job 8:6 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 #See Ps. 58:11 judges the peoples;
#
Ps. 26:1; 35:24; 43:1; [Ps. 18:20] 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 #Ps. 11:5; Job 23:10; [Ps. 139:1; 1 Sam. 16:7; 1 Chr. 28:9] test #Ps. 26:2; Jer. 11:20; 17:10; 20:12; Rev. 2:23the minds and hearts,#7:9 Hebrew the hearts and kidneys
O righteous God!
10My shield is #[Ps. 62:8] with God,
who saves #2 Chr. 29:34the upright in heart.
11God is #[Job 8:3] a righteous judge,
and a God who feels #Nah. 1:2, 6indignation every day.
12If a man#7:12 Hebrew he does not repent, God#7:12 Hebrew he will #Deut. 32:41 whet his sword;
he has #Ps. 11:2; 37:14 bent and #Ps. 21:12readied his bow;
13he has prepared for him his deadly weapons,
making his #See Ps. 18:14 arrows #[Eph. 6:16]fiery shafts.
14Behold, the wicked man #Job 15:35; Isa. 59:4; [Isa. 33:11; James 1:15]conceives evil
and is #Job 15:35; Isa. 59:4; [Isa. 33:11; James 1:15]pregnant with mischief
and gives birth to lies.
15He makes #Ps. 9:15; 57:6; 119:85; Prov. 26:27; 28:10; Eccles. 10:8a pit, digging it out,
and falls into the hole that he has made.
16His #[Ps. 94:23; 141:10; Judg. 9:24; 1 Kgs. 2:32; Esth. 7:10; 9:25; Prov. 5:22]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 #Ps. 9:2sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.
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Psalms 7
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PSALM 7.
1The psalm of David which he sung to the Lord for the words of Chusi the son of Jemini.#2 Kings 16.
2O Lord my God, in thee have I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me.
3Lest at any time he seize upon my soul like a lion, while there is no one to redeem me, nor to save.
4O Lord my God, if I have done this thing, if there be iniquity in my hands:
5If I have rendered to them that repaid me evils, let me deservedly fall empty before my enemies.
6Let the enemy pursue my soul, and take it, and tread down my life on the earth, and bring down my glory to the dust.
7Rise up, O Lord, in thy anger: and be thou exalted in the borders of my enemies. And arise, O Lord my God, in the precept which thou hast commanded:
8and a congregation of people shall surround thee. And for their sakes, return thou on high.
9The Lord judgeth the people. Judge me, O Lord, according to my justice, and according to my innocence in me.
10The wickedness of sinners shall be brought to nought: and thou shalt direct the just: the searcher of hearts and reins is God.
11Just is my help from the Lord: who saveth the upright of heart.
12God is a just judge, strong and patient: is he angry every day?
13Except you will be converted, he will brandish his sword: he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
14And in it he hath prepared the instruments of death, he hath made ready his arrows for them that burn.
15Behold, he hath been in labour with injustice: he hath conceived sorrow, and brought forth iniquity.
16He hath opened a pit and dug it; and he is fallen into the hole he made.
17His sorrow shall be turned on his own head: and his iniquity shall come down upon his crown.
18I will give glory to the Lord according to his justice: and will sing to the name of the Lord the most high.
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