1 O Lord my God, in You I take refuge and put my trust; save me from all those who pursue and persecute me, and deliver me,

2 L est my foe tear my life like a lion, dragging me away while there is none to deliver.

3 O Lord my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,

4 I f I have paid back with evil him who was at peace with me or without cause have robbed him who was my enemy,

5 L et the enemy pursue my life and take it; yes, let him trample my life to the ground and lay my honor in the dust. Selah!

6 A rise, O Lord, in Your anger; lift up Yourself against the rage of my enemies; and awake for me the justice and vindication You have commanded.

7 L et the assembly of the peoples be gathered about You, and return on high over them.

8 T he Lord judges the people; judge me, O Lord, and do me justice according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.

9 O h, let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; for You, Who try the hearts and emotions and thinking powers, are a righteous God.

10 M y defense and shield depend on God, Who saves the upright in heart.

11 G od is a righteous Judge, yes, a God Who is indignant every day.

12 I f a man does not turn and repent, will whet His sword; He has strung and bent His bow and made it ready.

13 H e has also prepared for him deadly weapons; He makes His arrows fiery shafts.

14 B ehold, conceives iniquity and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies.

15 H e made a pit and hollowed it out and has fallen into the hole which he made.

16 H is mischief shall fall back in return upon his own head, and his violence come down upon his own scalp.

17 I will give to the Lord the thanks due to His rightness and justice, and I will sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High.