³ O Lord my God, ^(F)if I have done this:
If there is ^(G)iniquity in my hands,
⁴ If I have repaid evil to him who was at peace with me,
Or ^(H)have plundered my enemy without cause,
⁵ Let the enemy pursue me and overtake me;
Yes, let him trample my life to the earth,
And lay my honor in the dust. Selah

⁶ Arise, O Lord, in Your anger;
^(I)Lift Yourself up because of the rage of my enemies;
^(J)Rise up ^[b]for me to the judgment You have commanded!
⁷ So the congregation of the peoples shall surround You;
For their sakes, therefore, return on high.
⁸ The Lord shall judge the peoples;
^(K)Judge me, O Lord, ^(L)according to my righteousness,
And according to my integrity within me.

⁹ Oh, let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end,
But establish the just;
^(M)For the righteous God tests the hearts and ^[c]minds.
^10 [d]My defense is of God,
Who saves the ^(N)upright in heart.

¹¹ God is a just judge,
And God is angry with the wicked every day.
¹² If he does not turn back,
He will ^(O)sharpen His sword;
He bends His bow and makes it ready.
¹³ He also prepares for Himself instruments of death;
He makes His arrows into fiery shafts.

^14 (P)Behold, the wicked brings forth iniquity;
Yes, he conceives trouble and brings forth falsehood.
¹⁵ He made a pit and dug it out,
^(Q)And has fallen into the ditch which he made.
^16 (R)His trouble shall return upon his own head,
And his violent dealing shall come down on ^[e]his own crown.

¹⁷ I will praise the Lord according to His righteousness,
And will sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High.

² The virgin of Israel has fallen;
She will rise no more.
She lies forsaken on her land;
There is no one to raise her up.

“The city that goes out by a thousand
Shall have a hundred left,
And that which goes out by a hundred
Shall have ten left to the house of Israel.”

^(B)“Seek Me ^(C)and live;
⁵ But do not seek ^(D)Bethel,
Nor enter Gilgal,
Nor pass over to ^(E)Beersheba;
For Gilgal shall surely go into captivity,
And ^(F)Bethel shall come to nothing.
^6 (G)Seek the Lord and live,
Lest He break out like fire in the house of Joseph,
And devour it,
With no one to quench it in Bethel—
⁷ You who ^(H)turn justice to wormwood,
And lay righteousness to rest in the earth!”

⁸ He made the ^(I)Pleiades and Orion;
He turns the shadow of death into morning
^(J)And makes the day dark as night;
He ^(K)calls for the waters of the sea
And pours them out on the face of the earth;
^(L)The Lord is His name.
⁹ He ^[a]rains ruin upon the strong,
So that fury comes upon the fortress.