Psalms 7:1-9

1O Lord my God, in you do I take refuge; save me from all my pursuers and deliver me,

2lest like a lion they tear my soul apart, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.

3O Lord my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,

4if I have repaid my friend with evil or plundered my enemy without cause,

5let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it, and let him trample my life to the ground and lay my glory in the dust. Selah

6Arise, O Lord, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.

7Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you; over it return on high.

8The Lord judges the peoples; judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.

9Oh, 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!