1 Sjiggajon van Dawid wat hy tot eer van die HERE gesing het weens die woorde van Kus, die Benjaminiet.
2 HERE, my God, by U skuil ek; verlos my van al my vervolgers en red my;
3 sodat hy nie soos 'n leeu my verskeur en wegruk sonder dat iemand red nie.
4 HERE, my God, as ek dit gedoen het, as daar onreg in my hande is,
5 as ek hom kwaad aangedoen het wat in vrede met my geleef het ja, ek het hom gered wat my sonder oorsaak vyandig was,
6 mag die vyand my dan vervolg en inhaal en my lewe teen die grond vertrap en my eer in die stof laat woon. Sela.
7 Staan op, HERE, in u toorn, verhef U teen die grimmigheid van my teëstanders en ontwaak vir my, U wat die reg beveel het!
8 En laat die vergadering van die volke U omring; keer dan bo hulle terug in die hoogte!
9 Die HERE oordeel die volke. Doen aan my reg, HERE, na my geregtigheid en na my onskuld wat by my is.
10 Laat tog die boosheid van die goddelose mense 'n einde neem, maar bevestig U die regverdige, ja, U wat harte en niere toets, o regverdige God!
11 My skild is by God wat die opregtes van hart verlos.
12 God is 'n regverdige regter, en 'n God wat elke dag toornig is.
13 As hy hom nie bekeer nie, maak Hy sy swaard skerp; Hy span sy boog en mik daarmee
14 en berei vir hom dodelike werktuie; Hy maak sy pyle brandende wapens.
15 Kyk, hy is in barensweë van onreg en is swanger van moeite; hy baar leuens.
16 Hy het 'n kuil gegrawe en dit uitgehol; maar hy het geval in die vangkuil wat hy gemaak het.
17 Die onheil wat hy gestig het, keer op sy hoof terug, en sy geweld kom op sy skedel neer. [ (Psalms 7:18) Ek wil die HERE loof na sy geregtigheid en die Naam van die HERE, die Allerhoogste, psalmsing. ]
1 Shiggaion of David; a song which he made to the Lord, about the words of Cush the Benjamite.
2 \7:1\O Lord my God, I put my faith in you; take me out of the hands of him who is cruel to me, and make me free;
3 \7:2\So that he may not come rushing on my soul like a lion, wounding it, while there is no one to be my saviour.
4 \7:3\O Lord my God, if I have done this; if my hands have done any wrong;
5 \7:4\If I have given back evil to him who did evil to me, or have taken anything from him who was against me without cause;
6 \7:5\Let my hater go after my soul and take it; let my life be crushed to the earth, and my honour into the dust. (Selah.)
7 \7:6\Come up, Lord, in your wrath; be lifted up against my haters; be awake, my God, give orders for the judging.
8 \7:7\The meeting of the nations will be round you; take your seat, then, over them, on high.
9 \7:8\The Lord will be judge of the peoples; give a decision for me, O Lord, because of my righteousness, and let my virtue have its reward.
10 \7:9\O let the evil of the evil-doer come to an end, but give strength to the upright: for men's minds and hearts are tested by the God of righteousness.
11 \7:10\God, who is the saviour of the upright in heart, is my breastplate.
12 \7:11\God is the judge of the upright, and is angry with the evil-doers every day.
13 \7:12\If a man is not turned from his evil, he will make his sword sharp; his bow is bent and ready.
14 \7:13\He has made ready for him the instruments of death; he makes his arrows flames of fire.
15 \7:14\That man is a worker of evil; the seed of wrongdoing has given birth to deceit.
16 \7:15\He has made a hole deep in the earth, and is falling into the hole which he has made
17 \7:16\His wrongdoing will come back to him, and his violent behaviour will come down on his head.
18 \7:17\I will give praise to the Lord for his righteousness; I will make a song to the name of the Lord Most High.