¹   O LORD my God, in you I take refuge; 
          save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me, 
²   or like a lion they will tear me apart; 
          they will drag me away, with no one to rescue.

³   O LORD my God, if I have done this, 
          if there is wrong in my hands, 
⁴   if I have repaid my ally with harm 
          or plundered my foe without cause, 
⁵   then let the enemy pursue and overtake me, 
          trample my life to the ground, 
          and lay my soul in the dust. Selah

⁶   Rise up, O LORD, in your anger; 
          lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; 
          awake, O my God; you have appointed a judgment. 
⁷   Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered around you, 
          and over it take your seat 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   O let the evil of the wicked come to an end, 
          but establish the righteous, 
     you who test the minds and hearts, 
          O righteous God. 
¹⁰  God is my shield, 
          who saves the upright in heart. 
¹¹  God is a righteous judge, 
          and a God who has indignation every day.

¹²  If one does not repent, God will whet his sword; 
          he has bent and strung his bow; 
¹³  he has prepared his deadly weapons, 
          making his arrows fiery shafts. 
¹⁴  See how they conceive evil, 
          and are pregnant with mischief, 
          and bring forth lies. 
¹⁵  They make a pit, digging it out, 
          and fall into the hole that they have made. 
¹⁶  Their mischief returns upon their own heads, 
          and on their own heads their violence descends.

¹⁷   I will give to the LORD the thanks due to his righteousness, 
          and sing praise to the name of the LORD, the Most High.