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align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../psalms/6.htm" title="Psalm 6">◄</a> Psalm 7 <a href="../psalms/8.htm" title="Psalm 8">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Psalm 7</span></h3><h3><span class="text">Plea for Help against Persecutors</span></h3><h4 class="psalm-title"><span class="text">A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> concerning Cush, a Benjaminite.</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> my God, in you I take refuge;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>or like a lion they will tear me apart;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">they will drag me away, with no one to rescue.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> my God, if I have done this,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">if there is wrong in my hands,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>if I have repaid my ally with harm</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">or plundered my foe without cause,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>then let the enemy pursue and overtake me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">trample my life to the ground,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and lay my soul in the dust.<i><span class="selah">Selah</span></i></span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>Rise up, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, in your anger;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">awake, O my God;<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16072a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> you have appointed a judgment.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered around you,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and over it take your seat<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16073b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> on high.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> judges the peoples;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">judge me, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, according to my righteousness</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and according to the integrity that is in me.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>O let the evil of the wicked come to an end,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">but establish the righteous,</span></span><br /><span class="text">you who test the minds and hearts,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">O righteous God.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>God is my shield,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">who saves the upright in heart.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>God is a righteous judge,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and a God who has indignation every day.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>If one does not repent, God<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16078c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> will whet his sword;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">he has bent and strung his bow;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>he has prepared his deadly weapons,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">making his arrows fiery shafts.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>See how they conceive evil,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and are pregnant with mischief,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and bring forth lies.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>They make a pit, digging it out,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and fall into the hole that they have made.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>Their mischief returns upon their own heads,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and on their own heads their violence descends.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>I will give to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> the thanks due to his righteousness,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and sing praise to the name of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, the Most High.</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 7:6">Psalm 7:6</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>awake for me</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 7:7">Psalm 7:7</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn: Heb <i>return</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 7:12">Psalm 7:12</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>he</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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