1A Shiggaion[1] of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite. O Lord my God, in you do I take refuge; save me from all my pursuers and deliver me, (مز 11:1; مز 31:15; حب 3:1)2lest like a lion they tear my soul apart, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver. (أي 10:16; مز 50:22)3O Lord my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands, (1صم 24:11; 1صم 26:18; 2صم 16:7; مز 59:3)4if I have repaid my friend[2] with evil or plundered my enemy without cause, (1صم 24:7; 1صم 26:9; مز 55:20)5let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it, and let him trample my life to the ground and lay my glory in the dust. (مز 89:39; دا 8:7)6Arise, O Lord, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake for me; you have appointed a judgment. (أي 8:6; مز 3:7; مز 35:23; مز 44:23; مز 59:4; مز 94:2; إش 33:10)7Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you; over it return on high.8The Lord judges the peoples; judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me. (مز 18:20; مز 26:1; مز 35:24; مز 43:1; مز 58:11)9Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous— you who test the minds and hearts,[3] O righteous God! (1صم 16:7; 1أخ 28:9; أي 23:10; مز 11:5; مز 26:2; مز 139:1; إر 11:20; إر 17:10; إر 20:12; رؤ 2:23)10My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart. (2أخ 29:34; مز 62:8)11God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day. (أي 8:3; نا 1:2; نا 1:6)12If a man[4] does not repent, God[5] will whet his sword; he has bent and readied his bow; (تث 32:41; مز 11:2; مز 21:12; مز 37:14)13he has prepared for him his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts. (مز 18:14; أف 6:16)14Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies. (أي 15:35; إش 33:11; إش 59:4; يع 1:15)15He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole that he has made. (مز 9:15; مز 57:6; مز 119:85; أم 26:27; أم 28:10; جا 10:8)16His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own skull his violence descends. (قض 9:24; 1مل 2:32; أس 7:10; أس 9:25; مز 94:23; مز 141:10; أم 5:22)17I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High. (مز 9:2)