1 O LORD my God, I have taken refuge in you; save me from all my pursuers and rescue me,
2 or like a lion he will tear my soul, ripping it apart with no one to rescue.
3 O LORD my God, if I have done this, if there is wrongdoing on my hands,
4 if I have paid back evil to him who was at peace with me, or plundered my foe without cause,
5 then let the enemy chase my soul and seize it, let him tread my life into the earth and make my glory dwell in the dust. Selah.
6 Rise up, O LORD, in your anger; lift yourself against the rage of my adversaries; awaken for me the judgment you have commanded.
7 May the congregation of the peoples surround you, and above it return to the heights.
8 The LORD will judge the peoples. Judge me, O LORD, by my righteousness and by the integrity within me.
9 Let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, and make the righteous firm; for the One who tries hearts and inmost being is the righteous God.
10 My shield rests upon God, the Savior of the upright in heart.
11 God is a judge who is righteous, a God who shows indignation every day.
12 If one does not turn, he will whet his sword; he has strung his bow and readied it.
13 He has prepared for him deadly weapons; he makes his arrows into flaming shafts.
14 Look, he travails with wickedness; he is pregnant with trouble and gives birth to a lie.
15 He has dug a pit and hollowed it out, and he falls into the ditch he was making.
16 His trouble comes back on his own head, and on his own crown his violence descends.
17 I will thank the LORD as his righteousness deserves, and sing praises to the name of the LORD Most High.