Psalm 7

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

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

⁶ Arise, O Lord, in thy anger,
    lift thyself up against the fury of my enemies;
    awake, O my God;^[a] thou hast appointed a judgment.
⁷ Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about thee;
    and over it take thy seat^[b] 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 thou the righteous,
thou who triest the minds and hearts,
    thou righteous God.
¹⁰ My shield is with God,
    who saves the upright in heart.
¹¹ God is a righteous judge,
    and a God who has indignation every day.

¹² If a man^[c] does not repent, God^[d] will whet his sword;
    he has bent and strung his bow;
¹³ he has prepared his deadly weapons,
    making his arrows fiery shafts.
¹⁴ Behold, the wicked man conceives evil,
    and is pregnant with mischief,
    and brings forth lies.
¹⁵ He makes a pit, digging it out,
    and falls into the hole which he has made.
¹⁶ His mischief returns upon his own head,
    and on his own pate his violence descends.

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