| Chapter 7 |
1 | 'The Erring One,' by David, that he sung to Jehovah concerning the words of Cush a Benjamite. O Jehovah, my God, in Thee I have trusted, Save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me. |
2 | Lest he tear as a lion my soul, Rending, and there is no deliverer. |
3 | O Jehovah, my God, if I have done this, If there is iniquity in my hands, |
4 | If I have done my well-wisher evil, And draw mine adversary without cause, |
5 | An enemy pursueth my soul, and overtaketh, And treadeth down to the earth my life, And my honour placeth in the dust. Selah. |
6 | Rise, O Jehovah, in Thine anger, Be lifted up at the wrath of mine adversaries, And awake Thou for me: Judgment Thou hast commanded: |
7 | And a company of peoples compass Thee, And over it on high turn Thou back, |
8 | Jehovah doth judge the peoples; Judge me, O Jehovah, According to my righteousness, And according to mine integrity on me, |
9 | Let, I pray Thee be ended the evil of the wicked, And establish Thou the righteous, And a trier of hearts and reins is the righteous God. |
10 | My shield [is] on God, Saviour of the upright in heart! |
11 | God [is] a righteous judge, And He is not angry at all times. |
12 | If [one] turn not, His sword he sharpeneth, His bow he hath trodden -- He prepareth it, |
13 | Yea, for him He hath prepared Instruments of death, His arrows for burning pursuers He maketh. |
14 | Lo, he travaileth [with] iniquity, And he hath conceived perverseness, And hath brought forth falsehood. |
15 | A pit he hath prepared, and he diggeth it, And he falleth into a ditch he maketh. |
16 | Return doth his perverseness on his head, And on his crown his violence cometh down. |
17 | I thank Jehovah, According to His righteousness, And praise the name of Jehovah Most High! |