{2Sa 19:31-20:26; Psa 7 ^**}

    ^7:1 O Jehovah my God, I take refuge in you. Save me from all those who pursue me and deliver me, ^7:2 lest they tear my soul like a lion, tearing it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

    ^7:3 O Jehovah my God, if I have done this, if there is unrighteousness in my hands, ^7:4 if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me, (yes, I have delivered him without cause who was my adversary),^7:5 let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it. Yes, let him tread my life down to the earth and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.

    ^7:6 Arise, O Jehovah, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries and awake for me the justice you have commanded. ^7:7And let the congregation of the peoples encompass you about and return on high over them.

    ^7:8 Jehovah will judge the peoples. Judge me, O Jehovah, according to my righteousness and to my integrity that is in me.

    ^7:9 O let the evil of the wicked man come to an end, but establish the righteous man. For the righteous God tries the minds and hearts.

    ^7:10 My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart. ^7:11 God is a righteous judge. Yes, a God who has indignation every day.

    ^7:12 If a man does not repent, he will flash his sword. He has bent his bow and made it ready. ^7:13 He has also prepared for him the instruments of death. He makes his arrows fiery.

    ^7:14 Behold the wicked man, he travails with wickedness. Yes, he has conceived evil and brought out falsehood. ^7:15 He has made a pit and dug it and has fallen into the ditch which he made. ^7:16 His evil will return upon his own head and his violence will come down upon his own scalp.

    ^7:17 I will give thanks to Jehovah according to his righteousness and will sing praise to the name of Jehovah Most High.