1 [Lament Of David Which he sang to Yahweh about Cush the Benjaminite] Yahweh my God, I take refuge in you, save me from all my pursuers and rescue me,
2 or he will savage me like a lion, carry me off with no one to rescue me.
3 Yahweh my God, if I have done this: if injustice has stained my hands,
4 if I have repaid my ally with treachery or spared one who attacked me unprovoked,
5 may an enemy hunt me down and catch me, may he trample my life into the ground and crush my vital parts into the dust.Pause
6 Arise, Yahweh, in your anger, rise up against the arrogance of my foes. Awake, my God, you demand judgement.
7 Let the assembly of nations gather round you; return above it on high!
8 (Yahweh judges the nations.) Judge me, Yahweh, as my uprightness and my integrity deserve.
9 Put an end to the malice of the wicked, make the upright stand firm, you who discern hearts and minds, God the upright.
10 God is a shield that protects me, saving the honest of heart.
11 God is an upright judge, slow to anger, but a God at all times threatening
12 for those who will not repent. Let the enemy whet his sword, draw his bow and make ready;
13 but he is making ready instruments of death for himself and tipping his arrows with fire;
14 look at him: pregnant with malice, conceiving spite, he gives birth to treachery.
15 He digs a trap, scoops it out, but he falls into the snare he made himself.
16 His spite recoils on his own head, his brutality falls back on his own skull.
17 I thank Yahweh for his saving justice. I sing to the name of the Most High.
Versículos relacionados com Psalms, 7:
Psalm 7 is a prayer of David, in which he cries to God to free him from his enemies. He expresses his confidence in God's righteousness and asks him to judge his cause. The following verses are related to the topics addressed in this psalm:
Psalm 3:4 - "With my voice I cry to the Lord, and He from His Holy Mount answers me." Just as David cries to God in his affliction, the psalmist here also expresses his confidence in God's response to his cry.
Psalm 17:6 - "I invoid you, O God, for you answer me; include your ears to me, and hear my speech." David asks God to hear his cause in the midst of persecution, and here the psalmist does the same.
Psalm 28:1 - "To you, O Lord, I cry; you are my rock; do not go to you to me; do not happen, silent you about me, that I be similar to those who descend to the grave." Just as David trusts in God as his rock and salvation, the psalmist cries to God not to shut up at his affliction.
Psalm 35:23 - "Wake up, and wake up to my defense, to my cause, my God and my Lord!" David asks God to awaken to judge his cause and defend his righteousness, and here the psalmist does the same.
Psalm 55:16-17-"As for me, I will invoke God, and the Lord shall save me. In the afternoon, and in the morning, and at noon, I will pray; and I will cry, and he will hear my voice." David cries out God at all times, and here the psalmist expresses his intention to do the same to be heard by God in his cause.
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