1 A plaintive song of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning Cush, the Benjaminite.
2 LORD my God, in you I take refuge; rescue me; save me from all who pursue me,
3 Lest they maul me like lions, tear me to pieces with none to save.
4 LORD my God, if I am at fault in this, if there is guilt on my hands,
5 If I have repaid my friend with evil-- I spared even those who hated me without cause--
6 Then let my enemy pursue and overtake me, trample my life to the ground, and leave me dishonored in the dust.Selah
7 Rise up, LORD, in your anger; rise against the fury of my foes. Wake to judge as you have decreed.
8 Have the assembly of the peoples gather about you; sit on your throne high above them,
9 O LORD, judge of the nations. Grant me justice, LORD, for I am blameless, free of any guilt.
10 Bring the malice of the wicked to an end; uphold the innocent, O God of justice, who tries hearts and minds.
11 A shield before me is God who saves the honest heart.
12 God is a just judge, who rebukes in anger every day.
13 If sinners do not repent, God sharpens his sword, strings and readies the bow,
14 Prepares his deadly shafts, makes arrows blazing thunderbolts.
15 Sinners conceive iniquity; pregnant with mischief, they give birth to failure.
16 They open a hole and dig it deep, but fall into the pit they have dug.
17 Their mischief comes back upon themselves; their violence falls on their own heads.
18 I praise the justice of the LORD; I celebrate the name of the LORD Most High.
Versículos relacionados com Psalms, 7:
Psalm 7 is a prayer of David, in which he cries to God to free him from his enemies. He expresses his confidence in God's righteousness and asks him to judge his cause. The following verses are related to the topics addressed in this psalm:
Psalm 3:4 - "With my voice I cry to the Lord, and He from His Holy Mount answers me." Just as David cries to God in his affliction, the psalmist here also expresses his confidence in God's response to his cry.
Psalm 17:6 - "I invoid you, O God, for you answer me; include your ears to me, and hear my speech." David asks God to hear his cause in the midst of persecution, and here the psalmist does the same.
Psalm 28:1 - "To you, O Lord, I cry; you are my rock; do not go to you to me; do not happen, silent you about me, that I be similar to those who descend to the grave." Just as David trusts in God as his rock and salvation, the psalmist cries to God not to shut up at his affliction.
Psalm 35:23 - "Wake up, and wake up to my defense, to my cause, my God and my Lord!" David asks God to awaken to judge his cause and defend his righteousness, and here the psalmist does the same.
Psalm 55:16-17-"As for me, I will invoke God, and the Lord shall save me. In the afternoon, and in the morning, and at noon, I will pray; and I will cry, and he will hear my voice." David cries out God at all times, and here the psalmist expresses his intention to do the same to be heard by God in his cause.
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