Psalms

A meditation by David, which he sang to the LORD, concerning the words of Cush, the Benjamite.

1LORD, my God, I take refuge in you.Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,

2lest they tear apart my soul like a lion,ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.

3LORD, my God, if I have done this,if there is iniquity in my hands,

4if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me(yes, I have plundered him who without cause was my adversary),

5let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it;yes, let him tread my life down to the earth,and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.

6Arise, LORD, in your anger.Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries.Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.

7Let the congregation of the peoples surround you. Rule over them on high.

8The LORD administers judgment to the peoples.Judge me, LORD, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.

9Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end,but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.

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

11God is a righteous judge,yes, a God who has indignation every day.

12If a man doesn’t repent, he will sharpen his sword;he has bent and strung his bow.

13He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death.He makes ready his flaming arrows.

14Behold,he travails with iniquity.Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought out falsehood.

15He has dug a hole,and has fallen into the pit which he made.

16The trouble he causes shall return to his own head.His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

17I will give thanks to the LORD according to his righteousness,and will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.

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.

2Lest he tear as a lion my soul, Rending, and there is no deliverer.

3O Jehovah, my God, if I have done this, If there is iniquity in my hands,

4If I have done my well-wisher evil, And draw mine adversary without cause,

5An enemy pursueth my soul, and overtaketh, And treadeth down to the earth my life, And my honour placeth in the dust. Selah.

6Rise, O Jehovah, in Thine anger, Be lifted up at the wrath of mine adversaries, And awake Thou for me: Judgment Thou hast commanded:

7And a company of peoples compass Thee, And over it on high turn Thou back,

8Jehovah doth judge the peoples; Judge me, O Jehovah, According to my righteousness, And according to mine integrity on me,

9Let, 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.

10My shield [is] on God, Saviour of the upright in heart!

11God [is] a righteous judge, And He is not angry at all times.

12If [one] turn not, His sword he sharpeneth, His bow he hath trodden — He prepareth it,

13Yea, for him He hath prepared Instruments of death, His arrows for burning pursuers He maketh.

14Lo, he travaileth [with] iniquity, And he hath conceived perverseness, And hath brought forth falsehood.

15A pit he hath prepared, and he diggeth it, And he falleth into a ditch he maketh.

16Return doth his perverseness on his head, And on his crown his violence cometh down.

17I thank Jehovah, According to His righteousness, And praise the name of Jehovah Most High!