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Psalm 7

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1 <<A shiggayon by David, which he sang to the LORD, concerning the words of Kush, the Binyamini.>> LORD, my God, I take refuge in you. Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,
1 God! God! I am running to you for dear life; the chase is wild.
2 Lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, Rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
2 If they catch me, I'm finished: ripped to shreds by foes fierce as lions, dragged into the forest and left unlooked for, unremembered.
3 LORD, my God, if I have done this, If there is iniquity in my hands,
3 God, if I've done what they say -
4 If I have rewarded evil to him who was at shalom with me (Yes, I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),
4 betrayed my friends, ripped off my enemies - If my hands are really that dirty,
5 Let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; Yes, let him tread my life down to the eretz, And lay my glory in the dust. Selah.
5 let them get me, walk all over me, leave me flat on my face in the dirt.
6 Arise, LORD, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.
6 Stand up, God; pit your holy fury against my furious enemies.
7 Let the congregation of the peoples surround you. Rule over them on high.
7 My accusers have packed the courtroom; it's judgment time.
8 The LORD administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, LORD, according to my righteousness, And to my integrity that is in me.
8 Take your place on the bench, reach for your gavel, throw out the false charges against me. I'm ready, confident in your verdict: "Innocent."
9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, But establish the righteous; Their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.
9 Close the book on Evil, God, but publish your mandate for us. You get us ready for life: you probe for our soft spots, you knock off our rough edges.
10 My shield is with God, Who saves the upright in heart.
10 And I'm feeling so fit, so safe: made right, kept right.
11 God is a righteous judge, Yes, a God who has indignation every day.
11 God in solemn honor does things right, but his nerves are sandpapered raw. Nobody gets by with anything.
12 If a man doesn't relent, he will sharpen his sword; He has bent and strung his bow.
12 God is already in action - Sword honed on his whetstone, bow strung, arrow on the string,
13 He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows.
13 Lethal weapons in hand, each arrow a flaming missile.
14 Behold, he travails with iniquity; Yes, he has conceived mischief and brought forth falsehood.
14 Look at that guy! He had sex with sin, he's pregnant with evil. Oh, look! He's having the baby - a Lie-Baby!
15 He has dug a hole, And has fallen into the pit which he made.
15 See that man shoveling day after day, digging, then concealing, his man-trap down that lonely stretch of road? Go back and look again - you'll see him in it headfirst, legs waving in the breeze.
16 The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.
16 That's what happens: mischief backfires; violence boomerangs.
17 I will give thanks to the LORD according to his righteousness, And will sing praise to the name of the LORD Elyon.
17 I'm thanking God, who makes things right. I'm singing the fame of heaven-high God.
The Hebrew Names Version is in the public domain.
Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.