# Psalm 7 A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite. 
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1. O LORD my God, in you do I take refuge; save me from all my pursuers and deliver me, 
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2. lest like a lion they tear my soul apart, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver. 
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3. O LORD my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands, 
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4. if I have repaid my friend with evil or plundered my enemy without cause, 
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5. let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it, and let him trample my life to the ground and lay my glory in the dust. Selah 
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6. Arise, O LORD, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake for me; you have appointed a judgment. 
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7. Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you; over it return on high. 
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8. The LORD judges the peoples; judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me. 
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9. Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous— you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God! 
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10. My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart. 
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11. God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day. 
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12. If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and readied his bow; 
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13. he has prepared for him his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts. 
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14. Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies. 
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15. He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole that he has made. 
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16. His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own skull his violence descends. 
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17. I will give to the LORD the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the LORD, the Most High. 

(ESV)