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

6Rise up, O Lord, in your anger;

lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;

awake, O my God;d you have appointed a judgment.*

7Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered around you,

and over it take your seate on high.*

8The Lord judges the peoples;

judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness

and according to the integrity that is in me.*

9O let the evil of the wicked come to an end,

but establish the righteous,

you who test the minds and hearts,

O righteous God.*

10God is my shield,

who saves the upright in heart.*

11God is a righteous judge

and a God who has indignation every day.*

12If one does not repent, Godf will whet his sword;

he has bent and strung his bow;*

13he has prepared his deadly weapons,

making his arrows fiery shafts.*

14See how they conceive evil

and are pregnant with mischief

and bring forth lies.*

15They make a pit, digging it out,

and fall into the hole that they have made.*

16Their mischief returns upon their own heads,

and on their own heads their violence descends.*

17I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness

and sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.*