In You Do I Take Refuge

A lShiggaion1 of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite.

¹O Lord my God, in you do I mtake refuge;

nsave me from all my pursuers and deliver me,

²lest like oa lion they tear my soul apart,

rending it in pieces, with pnone to deliver.

³O Lord my God, qif I have done this,

if there is rwrong in my hands,

⁴if I have repaid smy friend2 with evil

or tplundered my enemy without cause,

⁵let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it,

and let him utrample my life to the ground

and lay my glory in the dust. Selah

⁶vArise, O Lord, in your anger;

wlift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;

xawake for me; you have appointed a judgment.

⁷Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you;

over it return on high.

⁸The Lord yjudges the peoples;

zjudge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness

and according to the integrity that is in me.

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

and may you establish the righteous—

you who atest bthe minds and hearts,3

O righteous God!

¹⁰My shield is cwith God,

who saves dthe upright in heart.

¹¹God is ea righteous judge,

and a God who feels findignation every day.

¹²If a man4 does not repent, God5 will gwhet his sword;

he has hbent and ireadied his bow;

¹³he has prepared for him his deadly weapons,

making his jarrows kfiery shafts.

¹⁴Behold, the wicked man lconceives evil

and is lpregnant with mischief

and gives birth to lies.

¹⁵He makes ma pit, digging it out,

and falls into the hole that he has made.

¹⁶His nmischief returns upon his own head,

and on his own skull his violence descends.

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

and I will osing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.