In You I Have Taken Refuge

¹O Yahweh my God, in You I have taken refuge;

Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,

²Lest he tear my soul like a lion,[#7:2 Or me]

Rending me in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

³¶O Yahweh my God, if I have done this,

If there is injustice in my hands,

⁴If I have rewarded evil to him who is at peace with me,[#7:4 Lit was]

Or have plundered my adversary without cause,

⁵Let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it ;[#7:5 Or me; #7:5 Or me]

And let him trample my life down to the ground

And cause my glory to dwell in the dust. Selah.

⁶¶Arise, O Yahweh, in Your anger;

Lift up Yourself against the fury of my adversaries,

And arouse Yourself for me; You have appointed judgment.

⁷Let the congregation of the peoples encompass You,

And over them return on high.

⁸Yahweh judges the peoples;

Give justice to me, O Yahweh, according to my righteousness and my integrity that is in me.

⁹O let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous;

For the righteous God tests the hearts and minds.

¹⁰My shield is with God,[#7:10 Lit upon]

Who saves the upright in heart.

¹¹God is a righteous judge,

And a God who has indignation every day.

¹²¶If a man does not repent, He will sharpen His sword;[#7:12 Lit he]

He has bent His bow and prepared it.

¹³He has also prepared for Himself deadly weapons;[#7:13 Or His deadly weapons]

He makes His arrows fiery shafts.

¹⁴Behold, he travails with wickedness,

And he conceives mischief and gives birth to falsehood.

¹⁵He has dug a pit and hollowed it out,

And has fallen into the hole which he made.

¹⁶His mischief will return upon his own head,

And his violence will descend upon his own skull.

¹⁷¶I will give thanks to Yahweh according to His righteousness

And will sing praise to the name of Yahweh Most High.