1 A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to YHWH, concerning the words of Cush, the Benjamite. O YHWH my God, in You I have taken refuge; keep me safe from all those pursuing me, and deliver me, VP
2 lest they tear my soul like a lion, tearing apart, and there is no one snatching me up. VP
3 O YHWH my God, if I have done this, if there is injustice in my palms, VP
4 if I have dealt with the one at peace with me with evil, or have drawn out my enemy without cause, VP
5 may the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it, and let him trample my life to the ground, and let him set down my honor in the dust. Selah VP
6 arise, O YHWH, in Your anger; lift up against the fury of my adversaries, and rouse Yourself for me; You have appointed a judgment. VP
7 And let the congregation of peoples surround You; and over it return in the heights. VP
8 YHWH shall judge the peoples; Judge me, O YHWH, according to my righteousness, and according to my integrity within me. VP
9 Please, let the evil of the wicked cease, and may you establish the righteous—even the One testing hearts and kidneys, O Righteous God. VP
10 My shield [is] on God, the One saving the upright of heart. VP
11 God [is] a righteous judge, and a God expressing wrath on every day. VP
12 If one shall not turn back, [then] He sharpens His sword; He has bent His bow and prepared [it]. VP
13 And for Himself He has prepared instruments of death; His arrows He makes into fiery shafts. VP
14 Behold, he travails [with] evil, and he conceives trouble, and brings forth falsehood. VP
15 He has dug a pit and hollowed it out, and he has fallen into a pit he has made. VP
16 His trouble shall return upon his head, and on the top of his head, his violence shall come down. VP
17 I will confess YHWH according to His righteousness, and I will sing praise [to] the name of YHWH-Elyon. VP