[1] I take refuge in you, LORD, my God. Save me from all who chase me! Rescue me! [2] Otherwise, they will rip me apart, dragging me off with no chance of rescue. [3] LORD, my God, if I have done this—if my hands have done anything wrong, [4] if I have repaid a friend with evil or oppressed a foe for no reason— [5] then let my enemy not only chase but catch me, trampling my life into the ground, laying my reputation in the dirt. Selah [6] Get up, LORD; get angry! Stand up against the fury of my foes! Wake up, my God; you command that justice be done! [7] Let the assembled peoples surround you. Rule them from on high! [8] The LORD will judge the peoples. Establish justice for me, LORD, according to my righteousness and according to my integrity. [9] Please let the evil of the wicked be over, but set the righteous firmly in place because you, the righteous God, are the one who examines hearts and minds. [10] God is my shield; he saves those whose heart is right. [11] God is a righteous judge, a God who is angry at evil every single day. [12] If someone doesn’t change their ways, God will sharpen his sword, will bend his bow, will string an arrow. [13] God has deadly weapons in store for those who won’t change; he gets his flaming arrows ready! [14] But look how the wicked hatch evil, conceive trouble, give birth to lies! [15] They make a pit, dig it all out, and then fall right into the hole that they’ve made! [16] The trouble they cause will come back on their own heads; the violence they commit will come down on their own skulls. [17] But I will thank the LORD for his righteousness; I will sing praises to the name of the LORD Most High.
