007) Psalm 7

Psalm 7 Shiggaion of David, which he sang to Jehovah, upon the words of Cush the Benjamite.

6.6.8.6

1 O LORD my God, in thee I do my trust repose: save and deliver me from all my persecuting foes.

2 Lest like a lion he my soul in pieces tear rending asunder, while there is not one deliverer.

3 Jehovah O my God, if this thing done have I: if so there be within my hands wrongful iniquity;

4 If I required ill the man with me a peace;

(yea I have him delivered that was my foe causeless:)

5 Let foe pursue my soul, and take, and tread to clay my life, and honor in the dust there let him wholly lay.

6 Arise, Lord, in thy wrath for th’ enemies fierceness be thou lift up and wake to me judgment thou did’st express.

7 So thee encompass round shall peoples assembly: and for the same do thou return, unto the place on high.

8 The Lord shall judge the folk:

Jehovah judge thou me. according to my righteousness, and mine integrity.

9 Let ill men’s malice cease; but do the just confirm: for thou who art the righteous God dost hearts and reins discern.

10 For God my shield, the right in heart he saved hath.

11 The God that doth the righteous judge, yet daily kindleth wrath.

12 If he does not return, his sword he sharp will whet; his bow he bended hath, and he the same hath ready set.

13 For him he hath prepar’d the instruments of death; for them that hotly persecute his arrows he sharpeneth.

14 Behold he travelleth of vain iniquity a toilsome mischief he conceiv’d, but shall bring forth a lie.

15 A pit he digged hath, and delved deep the same: but fall’n he is into the ditch that he himself did frame.

16 His mischievous labour shall on his head turn down and his injurious violence shall fall upon his crown.

17 Jehovah I will praise for his just equity: and I will sing unto the name of Jehovah most high.

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