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1 A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning the words of Cush, a Benjamite.
2 O LORD my God, I take refuge in you;
save me and deliver me from all my pursuers,
3 or they will shred me like a lion
and tear me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
4 O LORD my God, if I have done this,
if injustice is on my hands,
5 if I have rewarded my ally with evil,
if I have plundered my foe without cause,
6 then may my enemy pursue me and overtake me;
may he trample me to the ground
and leave my honor in the dust.
Selah
7 Arise, O LORD, in your anger;
rise up against the fury of my enemies.
Awake for me, and ordain judgment.
8 Let the assembled peoples gather around you;
take your seat over them on high.
9 The LORD judges the peoples;
vindicate me, O LORD,
according to my righteousness and integrity.
10 Put an end to the evil of the wicked,
but establish the righteous,
O righteous God who searches hearts and minds.
11 My shield is with God,
who saves the upright in heart.
12 God is a righteous judge
and a God who feels indignation each day.
13 If one does not repent,
God will sharpen his sword;
he has bent and strung his bow.
14 He has prepared his deadly weapons;
he ordains his arrows with fire.
15 Behold, the wicked man travails with evil;
he conceives trouble and births falsehood.
16 He has dug a hole and hollowed it out;
he has fallen into a pit of his own making.
17 His trouble recoils on himself,
and his violence falls on his own head.
18 I will thank the LORD for his righteousness
and sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.