In You Do I Take Refuge
A Hab. 3:1Shiggaion7:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite.
1 O Lord my God, in you do I See Ps. 11:1take refuge;
Ps. 31:15save me from all my pursuers and deliver me,
2 lest like See Job 10:16a lion they tear my soul apart,
rending it in pieces, with Ps. 50:22none to deliver.
3 O Lord my God, [2 Sam. 16:7,8] if I have done this,
if there is 1 Sam. 24:11;26:18;[Ps. 59:3]wrong in my hands,
4 if I have repaid Ps. 55:20my friend7:4 Hebrew the one at peace with me with evil
or 1 Sam. 24:7;26:9plundered my enemy without cause,
5 let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it,
and let him Dan. 8:7;[Ps. 89:39]trample my life to the ground
and lay my glory in the dust. Selah
6 See Ps. 3:7Arise, O Lord, in your anger;
Ps. 94:2;Isa. 33:10lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;
Ps. 35:23;44:23;59:4;Job 8:6awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.
7 Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you;
over it return on high.
8 The LordSee Ps. 58:11judges the peoples;
Ps. 26:1;35:24;43:1;[Ps. 18:20]judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness
and according to the integrity that is in me.
9 Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end,
and may you establish the righteous—
you who Ps. 11:5;Job 23:10;[Ps. 139:1;1 Sam. 16:7;1 Chr. 28:9] test Ps. 26:2;Jer. 11:20;17:10;20:12;Rev. 2:23the minds and hearts,7:9 Hebrew the hearts and kidneys
O righteous God!
10 My shield is [Ps. 62:8] with God,
who saves 2 Chr. 29:34the upright in heart.
11 God is [Job 8:3] a righteous judge,
and a God who feels Nah. 1:2,6indignation every day.
12 If a man7:12 Hebrew he does not repent, God7:12 Hebrew he will Deut. 32:41whet his sword;
he has Ps. 11:2;37:14bent and Ps. 21:12readied his bow;
13 he has prepared for him his deadly weapons,
making his See Ps. 18:14arrows [Eph. 6:16]fiery shafts.
14 Behold, the wicked man Job 15:35;Isa. 59:4;[Isa. 33:11;James 1:15]conceives evil
and is Job 15:35;Isa. 59:4;[Isa. 33:11;James 1:15]pregnant with mischief
and gives birth to lies.
15 He makes Ps. 9:15;57:6;119:85;Prov. 26:27;28:10;Eccles. 10:8a pit, digging it out,
and falls into the hole that he has made.
16 His [Ps. 94:23;141:10;Judg. 9:24;1 Kgs. 2:32;Esth. 7:10;9:25;Prov. 5:22]mischief returns upon his own head,
and on his own skull his violence descends.
17 I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness,
and I will Ps. 9:2sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.