Psalm 7
or Coverdale
Domine, Deus meus

¹ O Lord my God, I take refuge in you; *
save and deliver me from all who pursue me;
² Lest like a lion they tear me in pieces *
and snatch me away with none to deliver me.
³ O Lord my God, if I have done these things: *
if there is any wickedness in my hands,
⁴ If I have repaid my friend with evil, *
or plundered him who without cause is my enemy;
⁵ Then let my enemy pursue and overtake me, *
trample my life into the ground,
and lay my honor in the dust.
⁶ Stand up, O Lord, in your wrath; *
rise up against the fury of my enemies.
⁷ Awake, O my God, decree justice; *
let the assembly of the peoples gather round you.
⁸ Be seated on your lofty throne, O Most High; *
O Lord, judge the nations.
⁹ Give judgment for me according to my
righteousness, O Lord, *
and according to my innocence, O Most High.
¹⁰ Let the malice of the wicked come to an end,
but establish the righteous; *
for you test the mind and heart, O righteous God.
¹¹ God is my shield and defense; *
he is the savior of the true in heart.
¹² God is a righteous judge; *
God sits in judgment every day.
¹³ If they will not repent, God will whet his sword; *
he will bend his bow and make it ready.
¹⁴ He has prepared his weapons of death; *
he makes his arrows shafts of fire.
¹⁵ Look at those who are in labor with wickedness, *
who conceive evil, and give birth to a lie.
¹⁶ They dig a pit and make it deep *
and fall into the hole that they have made.
¹⁷ Their malice turns back upon their own head; *
their violence falls on their own scalp.
¹⁸ I will bear witness that the Lord is righteous; *
I will praise the Name of the Lord Most High.