In You Do I Take Refuge
A aShiggaion of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite.
O Lord my God, in you do I btake refuge;
csave me from all my pursuers and deliver me,
2 lest like aa lion they tear my soul apart,
rending it in pieces, with bnone to deliver.
3 O Lord my God, aif I have done this,
if there is bwrong in my hands,
4 if I have repaid amy friend with evil
or bplundered my enemy without cause,
5 let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it,
and let him atrample my life to the ground
and lay my glory in the dust. Selah
6 aArise, O Lord, in your anger;
blift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;
cawake for me; you have appointed a judgment.
7 Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you;
over it return on high.
8 The Lord ajudges the peoples;
bjudge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness
and according to the integrity that is in me.
9 Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end,
and may you establish the righteous—
you who atest bthe minds and hearts,
O righteous God!
10 My shield is awith God,
who saves bthe upright in heart.
11 God is aa righteous judge,
and a God who feels bindignation every day.
12 If a man does not repent, God will awhet his sword;
he has bbent and creadied his bow;
13 he has prepared for him his deadly weapons,
making his aarrows bfiery shafts.
14 Behold, the wicked man aconceives evil
and is apregnant with mischief
and gives birth to lies.
15 He makes aa pit, digging it out,
and falls into the hole that he has made.
16 His amischief returns upon his own head,
and on his own skull his violence descends.
17 I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness,
and I will asing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.