Psalm 7:1-5

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

Psalm 7

Plea for Help against Persecutors

A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning Cush, a Benjaminite.

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

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

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