Psalm 7

1. You are my refuge; LORD, defend me
   before my foes like lions rend me
   and drag me off, a helpless prey.
   If I my friend with harm repay,
   if I am guilty of transgression
   and have delighted in oppression,
   then let me by my foe be found,
   and let him tread me to the ground.
   
   
2. Rise in your wrath, O God of glory,
   against my foes and all their fury.
   My God, awake! Let them draw near,
   that they before you may appear.
   Ascend your throne to judge the nations;
   with justice rule their generations.
   Judge me, O LORD, for I profess
   integrity and righteousness.
   
   
3. Let all the evildoers perish.
   The just, O LORD, support and cherish.
   Let them in you their refuge find –
   in you, who search both heart and mind.
   God is my shield, my strong defender,
   and he will righteous judgments render.
   As upright judge, he every day
   will to my foes his wrath display.
   
   
4. God’s anger will be unrelenting
   if one does wrong without repenting.
   Then he his righteous wrath will show;
   he’ll whet his sword and bend his bow,
   with skill at the offender aiming
   his deadly arrows, barbed and flaming.
   My foe great evil has conceived
   but will not see his goals achieved.
   
   
5. With evil pregnant, he’ll engender
   a wicked brood of lies and slander.
   But when for me he digs a pit,
   he will himself fall into it.
   The mischief that he is intending
   will on his own head be descending.
   God’s justice I will glorify,
   and I will praise the LORD Most High!