Psalm 7, side by side

¹A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning the words of Cush, a Benjamite. O LORD my God, I take refuge in You; save me and deliver me from all my pursuers,

¹O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:

²or they will shred my soul like a lion and tear me to pieces with no one to rescue me.

²Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

³O LORD my God, if I have done this, if injustice is on my hands,

³O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;

⁴if I have rewarded my ally with evil, if I have plundered my foe without cause,

⁴If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)

⁵then may my enemy pursue me and overtake me; may he trample me to the ground and leave my honor in the dust. Selah

⁵Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.

⁶Arise, O LORD, in Your anger; rise up against the fury of my enemies. Awake, my God, and ordain judgment.

⁶Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.

⁷Let the assembled peoples gather around You; take Your seat over them on high.

⁷So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high.

⁸The LORD judges the peoples; vindicate me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and integrity.

⁸The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.

⁹Put an end to the evil of the wicked, but establish the righteous, O righteous God who searches hearts and minds.

⁹Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.

¹⁰My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.

¹⁰My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.

¹¹God is a righteous judge and a God who feels indignation each day.

¹¹God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.

¹²If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.

¹²If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

¹³He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire.

¹³He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.

¹⁴Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.

¹⁴Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

¹⁵He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.

¹⁵He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.

¹⁶His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.

¹⁶His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.

¹⁷I will thank the LORD for His righteousness and sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.

¹⁷I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.