Psalm 7,1 | New International Reader’s Version

A shiggaion of David. He sang it to the Lord about Cush, who was from the tribe of Benjamin.

1 LORD my God, I go to you for safety. Help me. Save me from all those who are chasing me. 2 If you don’t, they will tear me apart as if they were lions. They will rip me to pieces so that no one can save me. 3 LORD my God, suppose I have done something wrong. Suppose I am guilty. 4 Or I have done evil to my friend. Or I have robbed my enemy without any reason. 5 Then let my enemy chase me and catch me. Let him trample me into the ground. Let him bury me in the dust. 6 LORD, rise up in your anger. Rise up against the great anger of my enemies. My God, wake up. Command that the right thing be done. 7 Let all the people of the earth gather around you. Rule over them from your throne in heaven. 8 LORD, judge all people. LORD, show that I have done what is right. Most High God, remember that I am honest. 9 God, you always do what is right. You look deep down inside the hearts and minds of people. Bring to an end the terrible things sinful people do. Make godly people safe. 10 The Most High God is like a shield that keeps me safe. He saves those whose hearts are honest. 11 God judges fairly. He shows his anger every day. 12 If evil people don’t change their ways, God will sharpen his sword. He will get his bow ready to use. 13 He has prepared his deadly weapons. He has made his flaming arrows ready. 14 Whoever is full of evil plans trouble and ends up telling lies. 15 Whoever digs a hole and shovels it out falls into the pit they have made. 16 The trouble they cause comes back on them. The terrible things they do will happen to them. 17 I will give thanks to the LORD because he does what is right. I will sing the praises of the name of the LORD Most High.

English Standard Version

In You Do I Take Refuge

1 A Shiggaion* of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite. O Lord my God, in you do I take refuge; save me from all my pursuers and deliver me, 2 lest like a lion they tear my soul apart, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver. 3 O Lord my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands, 4 if I have repaid my friend* with evil or plundered my enemy without cause, 5 let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it, and let him trample my life to the ground and lay my glory in the dust. 6 Arise, O Lord, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake for me; you have appointed a judgment. 7 Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you; over it return on high. 8 The Lord judges the peoples; judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me. 9 Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous— you who test the minds and hearts,* O righteous God! 10 My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart. 11 God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day. 12 If a man* does not repent, God* will whet his sword; he has bent and readied his bow; 13 he has prepared for him his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts. 14 Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies. 15 He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole that he has made. 16 His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own skull his violence descends. 17 I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.

Psalm 7,1 | New International Reader’s Version English Standard Version

A shiggaion of David. He sang it to the Lord about Cush, who was from the tribe of Benjamin.

In You Do I Take Refuge