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In You Do I Take Refuge

A Shiggaion^[a] 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^[b] 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. Selah

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,^[c]
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^[d] does not repent, God^[e] 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.

Footnotes:

1. Psalm 7:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
2. Psalm 7:4 Hebrew the one at peace with me
3. Psalm 7:9 Hebrew the hearts and kidneys
4. Psalm 7:12 Hebrew he
5. Psalm 7:12 Hebrew he

Cross references:

1. Psalm 7:1 : Hab. 3:1
2. Psalm 7:1 : See Ps. 11:1
3. Psalm 7:1 : Ps. 31:15
4. Psalm 7:2 : See Job 10:16
5. Psalm 7:2 : Ps. 50:22
6. Psalm 7:3 : [2 Sam. 16:7, 8]
7. Psalm 7:3 : 1 Sam. 24:11; 26:18; [Ps. 59:3]
8. Psalm 7:4 : Ps. 55:20
9. Psalm 7:4 : 1 Sam. 24:7; 26:9
10. Psalm 7:5 : Dan. 8:7; [Ps. 89:39]
11. Psalm 7:6 : See Ps. 3:7
12. Psalm 7:6 : Ps. 94:2; Isa. 33:10
13. Psalm 7:6 : Ps. 35:23; 44:23; 59:4; Job 8:6
14. Psalm 7:8 : See Ps. 58:11
15. Psalm 7:8 : Ps. 26:1; 35:24; 43:1; [Ps. 18:20]
16. Psalm 7:9 : Ps. 11:5; Job 23:10; [Ps. 139:1; 1 Sam. 16:7; 1 Chr. 28:9]
17. Psalm 7:9 : Ps. 26:2; Jer. 11:20; 17:10; 20:12; Rev. 2:23
18. Psalm 7:10 : [Ps. 62:8]
19. Psalm 7:10 : 2 Chr. 29:34
20. Psalm 7:11 : [Job 8:3]
21. Psalm 7:11 : Nah. 1:2, 6
22. Psalm 7:12 : Deut. 32:41
23. Psalm 7:12 : Ps. 11:2; 37:14
24. Psalm 7:12 : Ps. 21:12
25. Psalm 7:13 : See Ps. 18:14
26. Psalm 7:13 : [Eph. 6:16]
27. Psalm 7:14 : Job 15:35; Isa. 59:4; [Isa. 33:11; James 1:15]
28. Psalm 7:14 : Job 15:35; Isa. 59:4; [Isa. 33:11; James 1:15]
29. Psalm 7:15 : Ps. 9:15; 57:6; 119:85; Prov. 26:27; 28:10; Eccles. 10:8
30. Psalm 7:16 : [Ps. 94:23; 141:10; Judg. 9:24; 1 Kgs. 2:32; Esth. 7:10; 9:25; Prov. 5:22]
31. Psalm 7:17 : Ps. 9:2