1O Lord my God, in thee do I my confidence repose: Save and deliver me from all my persecuting foes; | 2Lest that the enemy my soul should, like a lion, tear, In pieces rending it, while there is no deliverer. | 3O Lord my God, if it be so that I committed this; If it be so that in my hands iniquity there is: | 4If I rewarded ill to him that was at peace with me; (Yea, ev’n the man that without cause my foe was I did free;) | 5Then let the foe pursue and take my soul, and my life thrust Down to the earth, and let him lay mine honour in the dust. | 6Rise in thy wrath, Lord, raise thyself, for my foes raging be; And, to the judgment which thou hast commanded, wake for me. | 7So shall th’ assembly of thy folk about encompass thee: Thou, therefore, for their sakes, return unto thy place on high. | 8The Lord he shall the people judge: my judge, Jehovah, be, After my righteousness, and mine integrity in me. | 9O let the wicked’s malice end; but stablish stedfastly The righteous: for the righteous God the hearts and reins doth try. | 10In God, who saves th’ upright in heart, is my defence and stay. 11God just men judgeth, God is wroth with ill men ev’ry day. | 12If he do not return again, then he his sword will whet; His bow he hath already bent, and hath it ready set: | 13He also hath for him prepar’d the instruments of death; Against the persecutors he his shafts ordained hath. | 14Behold, he with iniquity doth travail, as in birth; A mischief he conceived hath, and falsehood shall bring forth. | 15He made a pit and digg’d it deep, another there to take; But he is fall’n into the ditch which he himself did make. | 16Upon his own head his mischief shall be returned home; His vi’lent dealing also down on his own pate shall come. | 17According to his righteousness the Lord I’ll magnify; And will sing praise unto the name of God that is most high. | |