Psalms 7
1 Yahweh my God, I come to you to protect me. Rescue me, save me from all those who are pursuing me [in order to harm me].
'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 If you do not do that, they will tear me into pieces like a lion does [when it attacks the animals it wants to kill], and no one will save me [from them].
Lest he tear as a lion my soul, Rending, and there is no deliverer.
3 Yahweh my God, if I have done anything that is wrong,
O Jehovah, my God, if I have done this, If there is iniquity in my hands,
4 if I have done evil to some friend who did good things to me, or if, for no good reason, I have spared (OR, acted violently toward) those who were my enemies,
If I have done my well-wisher evil, And draw mine adversary without cause,
5 allow my enemies to pursue me and capture me. Allow them to trample me into the ground and leave me [SYN] [lying dead] in the dirt.
An enemy pursueth my soul, and overtaketh, And treadeth down to the earth my life, And my honour placeth in the dust. (Selah)
6 But Yahweh, because you are [very] angry [with those who pursue me], arise and attack/defeat my enemies who are furiously/angrily [attacking me] Do to them what is just!
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 Gather around you the people of [all] nations, and rule them from where you are in heaven [MTY].
And a company of peoples compass Thee, And over it on high turn Thou back,
8 Yahweh, judge the people of [all] nations! And, Yahweh, show that I have done nothing that is wrong.
Jehovah doth judge the peoples; Judge me, O Jehovah, According to my righteousness, And according to mine integrity on me,
9 God, you know what every person is thinking, and because you are righteous, you [always] do what is just/right. [So now] stop evil people from doing wicked [deeds], and defend [all of us who are] righteous!
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 God, you protect me like a shield [protects soldiers] [MET]; you protect all those who are righteous in their inner being.
My shield [is] on God, Saviour of the upright in heart!
11 You judge [everyone] correctly, and every day you punish [wicked people].
God [is] a righteous judge, And He is not angry at all times.
12 Whenever your enemies do not (repent/change their behavior), [it is as though] [MET] you sharpen your sword and put a string on your bow [to get ready to kill them].
If [one] turn not, His sword he sharpeneth, His bow he hath trodden — He prepareth it,
13 You are preparing your weapons that kill those whom they strike; the arrows that you will shoot have flaming tips.
Yea, for him He hath prepared Instruments of death, His arrows for burning pursuers He maketh.
14 Wicked people tell lies, and they think that they surely will be able to do [MET] the evil things that they are planning to do [just as surely as] a pregnant woman [knows that she is going to give birth to a child] [MET].
Lo, he travaileth [with] iniquity, And he hath conceived perverseness, And hath brought forth falsehood.
15 But when they dig a deep pit [to trap others], they themselves will fall into it.
A pit he hath prepared, and he diggeth it, And he falleth into a ditch he maketh.
16 They themselves will experience the trouble that they want to cause others to have; they will hurt themselves by the violent things that they want to do to others.
Return doth his perverseness on his head, And on his crown his violence cometh down.
17 I praise Yahweh because he [always acts] righteously/justly; I sing to praise Yahweh, the one who is much greater than any other god.
I thank Jehovah, According to His righteousness, And praise the name of Jehovah Most High!
