³ O Yahweh my Elohim,
    if I have done this—
        if my hands are stained with injustice,
⁴         if I have paid back my friend with evil
            or rescued someone who has no reason to attack me—^[b]

⁵ then let the enemy chase me and catch me.
    Let him trample my life into the ground.
        Let him lay my honor in the dust. Selah

⁶ Arise in anger, O Yahweh.
    Stand up against the fury of my attackers.
    Wake up, my God.^[c]
    You have already pronounced judgment.
⁷         Let an assembly of people gather around you.
            Take your seat high above them.
⁸ Yahweh judges the people of the world.
    Judge me, O Yahweh,
    according to my righteousness,
    according to my integrity.

⁹ Let the evil within wicked people come to an end,
    but make the righteous person secure,
        O righteous Elohim who examines thoughts and emotions.
¹⁰ My Magen is Elohim above,
    who saves those whose motives are decent.

¹¹ Elohim is a fair Shophet,
    an El who is angered by injustice every day.
¹² If a person does not change, Elohim sharpens his sword.
    By bending his bow, he makes it ready to shoot.
¹³ He prepares his deadly weapons
    and turns them into flaming arrows.
¹⁴ See how that person conceives evil,
    is pregnant with harm,
        and gives birth to lies.
¹⁵ He digs a pit and shovels it out.
    Then he falls into the hole that he made for others.
¹⁶ His mischief lands back on his own head.
    His violence comes down on top of him.

¹⁷ I will give thanks to Yahweh for his righteousness.
    I will make music to praise the name of Yahweh Elyon.