Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD, concerning the words of Cush the Benjamite
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📚✭✭O LORD my God,in you I put my trust.
Save me and deliver me
from all those who
persecute me,
2 📚Or he will tear my soul
like a lion,
ripping it in pieces,
while there is no
one to bring deliverance.
3 📚✭O LORD my God,
if I have done this,
if there is wickedness
in my hands;
4 📚✭If I have repaid evil to him
who was at peace with me
(yes, I have delivered him
who without cause is
my enemy)
5 📚Let the enemy pursue me
and overtake me;
yes, let him trample down
my life on the earth,
and lay my honour in the dust. Selah
6 📚✭Arise, O LORD, in your anger;
rise up because of the rage
of my enemies,
and awake for me to the judgment
you have decreed.
7 📚So the congregation of the people
will gather around you.
For their sakes, therefore,
return on high.
8 📚The LORD will judge✭ the people.
Judge me, O LORD, according
to my righteousness,
and according to my
inner integrity.
9 📚Oh, let the wickedness of
the wicked come to an end,
but establish the just;
for the righteous God tests
the hearts and minds.
10 📚My defense✭ is from God
who saves the upright in heart.
11 📚God is a righteous judge,
and God is angry✭ with the wicked
every day.
12 📚If he does not turn back,
he will sharpen his sword✭.
He will bend his bow,
and make it ready.
13 📚He has also prepared deadly
weapons for himself;
he makes his flaming
arrows ready.
14 📚✭Look, the wicked travails
with wickedness,
and conceives trouble,
and gives birth to falsehood.
15 📚He made a pit, and dug it out;
and has fallen into the ditch
which he made.
16 📚His trouble will return
on his own head,
and his violent acts will come
down on his own crown.
17 📚I will praise✭✭ the LORD in accordance
with his righteousness✭,
and will sing praise to the name
of the LORD Most High✭.