1. O Yahweh my God, in thee, have I sought refuge, -- Save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me:
2. Lest one tear, as a lion, my soul, -- and there be no deliverer to rescue.
3. O Yahweh my God, If I have done this, If there hath been perversity in my hands:
4. If I have requited my friend with wrong, -- or have oppressed mine adversary without need,
5. Let an enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it, that he may tread down, to the earth, my life, -- and, mine honour -- in the dust, he may cause to dwell. [Selah.]
6. Rise! Yahweh! in thine anger, Lift thyself up, because of the haughty outbursts of mine adversaries, Stir up for me the justice thou hast commanded:
7. When, the assembly of peoples, gather round thee, then, above it -- on high, do thou return!
8. Yahweh, will judge the peoples, -- Do me justice, O Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity upon me,
9. Let the wrong of the lawless, I pray thee, come to an end, and establish thou him that is righteous, -- for, a trier of hearts and reins, is God the righteous one.
10. My shield, is held by God, who is ready to save the upright in heart:
11. A God to vindicate the righteous, -- and yet a Got to be indignant throughout every day.
12. If he turn not, his sword, will he whet, -- his bow, hath he bent, and made ready:
13. But, for himself, hath he made ready the weapons so deadly, His arrows, he, so fiery, would make:
14. Lo! he gendereth trouble, and conceiveth mischief, but giveth birth to a disappointment:
15. A pit, he cut out, and digged it, and then fell into the ditch he had made:
16. His mischief, turneth back, on his own head, -- and, on his own crown, his violence, descendeth.
17. I will praise Yahweh according to his righteousness, -- and will praise in song the Name of Yahweh Most High.