¹ O LORD my God, in you I put my trust: save me from all those who persecute me, and deliver me ² to prevent the tearing of my soul like a lion, breaking it in pieces, while there is none to deliver me. ³ O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands; ⁴ If I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me; (yes, I have delivered him that without cause who is my enemy :) ⁵ Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yes, let him tread down my life on the earth, and lay my honour in the dust. Selah. ⁶ Arise, O LORD, in your anger, lift up yourself because of the rage of my enemies: and awake for me to do the judgment that you have commanded. ⁷ So will the congregation of the people surround you: for their sake therefore return on high. ⁸ The LORD will judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to my integrity [that is] in me. ⁹ Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end but establish the just: for the righteous God tests hearts and minds. ¹⁰ My defense is with God, who saves the upright in heart. ¹¹ God judges the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day. ¹² If he won't repent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready. ¹³ He has also prepared for him the instruments of death, he ordains his arrows against the persecutors. ¹⁴ See, he fights with iniquity, and has conceived mischief, and brought forward falsehood. ¹⁵ He made a pit, and dug it, and fell into the ditch which he made. ¹⁶ His mischief will return on his own head, and his violent dealing will come down on his own skull. ¹⁷ I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.