Tehillim 7

²Hashem Elohai, in Thee do I seek refuge;

hoshieini (save me) from all them that persecute me, and deliver me;

³Lest he tear my nefesh like a lion, rending it in pieces,

while there is none to rescue.

⁴Hashem Elohai, if I have done this;

if there be guilt in my hands;

⁵If I have recompensed with evil him that held out shalom unto me;

or, without cause plundered my opposers,

⁶Then let the enemy persecute my nefesh, and take it;

yea, let him tread down my life to the earth,

and lay mine kavod to sleep in the dust.

Selah

⁷Arise, Hashem , in Thine anger,

lift up Thyself because of the rage of mine enemies;

awake, o my El, to the mishpat Thou hast decreed.

⁸So let the Adat l'Umim surround Thee;

and over it return Thou on high.

⁹Hashem shall judge the people;

judge me, Hashem , according to my tzedek,

and according to mine integrity that is in me.

¹⁰Oh let the wickedness of the resha'im come to an end;

but make the tzaddik secure;

for the Elohim Tzaddik trieth the minds and hearts.

¹¹My mogen (shield) is Elohim,

Moshi'a of the upright in heart.

¹²Elohim is a Shofet Tzaddik,

and El expresses wrath kol yom.

¹³If He relent not, He will sharpen His cherev;

He hath bent His keshet (bow) and made it ready.

¹⁴He hath also prepared for Him the instruments of mavet;

He ordaineth His flaming khitzim (arrows) .

¹⁵Hinei, he travaileth with iniquity,[#7:15 an evil person]

and hath conceived trouble, and brought forth falsehood.

¹⁶He makes a pit, and digs it,

and is fallen into the shachat (pit) which he made.

¹⁷His trouble shall return upon his own rosh,

and his chamas shall come down upon his own kodkod (crown of the head) .

¹⁸I will give thanks to Hashem according to His tzedek;

and will sing praise to the Shem of Hashem Elyon.