Shiggaion of David, which he sang to Jehovah, upon the words of Cush the Benjamite.
1 O LORD my God, in thee
I do my trust repose:
save and deliver me from all
my persecuting foes.
2 Lest like a lion he
my soul in pieces tear
rending asunder, while there is
not one deliverer.
3 Jehovah O my God,
if this thing done have I:
if so there be within my hands
wrongful iniquity;
4 If I required ill
the man with me a peace;
(yea I have him delivered
that was my foe causeless:)
5 Let foe pursue my soul,
and take, and tread to clay
my life, and honor in the dust
there let him wholly lay.
6 Arise, Lord, in thy wrath
for th’ enemies fierceness
be thou lift up and wake to me
judgment thou did’st express.
7 So thee encompass round
shall peoples assembly:
and for the same do thou return,
unto the place on high.
8 The Lord shall judge the folk:
Jehovah judge thou me.
according to my righteousness,
and mine integrity.
9 Let ill men’s malice cease;
but do the just confirm:
for thou who art the righteous God
dost hearts and reins discern.
10 For God my shield, the right
in heart he saved hath.
11 The God that doth the righteous judge,
yet daily kindleth wrath.
12 If he does not return,
his sword he sharp will whet;
his bow he bended hath, and he
the same hath ready set.
13 For him he hath prepar’d
the instruments of death;
for them that hotly persecute
his arrows he sharpeneth.
14 Behold he travelleth
of vain iniquity
a toilsome mischief he conceiv’d,
but shall bring forth a lie.
15 A pit he digged hath,
and delved deep the same:
but fall’n he is into the ditch
that he himself did frame.
16 His mischievous labour
shall on his head turn down
and his injurious violence
shall fall upon his crown.
17 Jehovah I will praise
for his just equity:
and I will sing unto the name
of Jehovah most high.