Psalm 7

International Standard Version

³ Lord, my God, if I have done this thing,
    if there is injustice on my hands,
⁴ if I have rewarded those who did me good with evil,
    if I have plundered my enemy without justification,
⁵ then, let my enemy pursue me,
    let him overtake me,
        and let him trample my life to the ground.
Interlude
Let him put my honor into the dust.

⁶ Get up, Lord, in your anger!
    Rise up, because of the fury of my enemies;
Arouse yourself for me;
    you have ordained justice.
⁷ Let the assembly of the peoples gather around you,
    and you will sit^[d] high above them.
⁸ For the Lord will judge the peoples.
    Judge me according to my righteousness, Lord,
        and according to my integrity, Exalted One.

⁹ Let the evil of the wicked come to an end,
    but establish the righteous.
For you are the righteous God
    who discerns the inner thoughts.^[e]
10 God is my shield,^[f]
    the one who delivers the upright in heart.
¹¹ God is a righteous judge,
    a God who is angry with sinners^[g] every day.

¹² If the ungodly one^[h] doesn’t repent,
    God will sharpen his sword;
        he will string his bow and prepare it.
¹³ He prepares weapons of death for himself,
    he makes his arrows into fiery shafts.

¹⁴ But the wicked one^[i] travails with evil,
    he conceives malice and gives birth to lies.
¹⁵ He digs a pit, even excavates it;
    then he fell into the hole that he had made.
¹⁶ The trouble^[j] he planned will return on his own head,
    and his violence will descend on his skull.
¹⁷ But as for me,
    I will praise the Lord for his righteousness,
        and I will sing to the name of the Lord Most High.