1 Yahweh, my God, I take refuge in you.
Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,
2 lest they tear apart my soul like a lion,
ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.
3 Yahweh, my God, if I have done this,
if there is iniquity in my hands,
4 if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me
(yes, I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),
5 let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it;
yes, let him tread my life down to the earth,
and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.
6 Arise, Yahweh, in your anger.
Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries.
Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.
7 Let the congregation of the peoples surround you.
Rule over them on high.
8 Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples.
Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness,
and to my integrity that is in me.
9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end,
but establish the righteous;
their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.
10 My shield is with God,
who saves the upright in heart.
11 God is a righteous judge,
yes, a God who has indignation every day.
12 If a man doesn’t repent, he will sharpen his sword;
he has bent and strung his bow.
13 He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death.
He makes ready his flaming arrows.
14 Behold, he travails with iniquity.
Yes, he has conceived mischief,
and brought out falsehood.
15 He has dug a hole,
and has fallen into the pit which he made.
16 The trouble he causes shall return to his own head.
His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.
17 I will give thanks to Yahweh according to his righteousness,
and will sing praise to the name of Yahweh Most High.
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. ]