Psalm 7, Chant D

 

Psalm 7   Domine, Deus meus

1 O LORD my God, I take re-fuge in you; *
save and deliver me from all who pur-sue me ;

2 Lest like a lion they tear me in pie-ces *
and snatch me away with none to de-li-ver me.

3 O LORD my God, if I have done these things: *
if there is any wickedness in my hands ,

4 If I have repaid my friend with ev-il, *
or plundered him who without cause is my en-emy;

5 Then let my enemy pursue and o-ver-take me, *
trample my life into the ground, and lay my honor in the dust .

6 Stand up, O LORD, in your wrath; *
rise up against the fury of my en-emies.

7 Awake, O my God, de-cree jus-tice; *
let the assembly of the peoples ga-ther round you.

8 Be seated on your lofty throne, O Most High; *
O LORD,  judge the na-tions.

9 Give judgment for me according to my righteous-ness, O LORD, *
and according to my innocence, O Most High.

10 Let the malice of the wicked come to an end, but establish the right-eous; *
for you test the mind and heart, O right-eous God.

11 God is my shield and de-fense; *
he is the savior of the true in heart .

12 God is a right-eous judge; *
God sits in judgment ev-ery day.

13 If they will not repent, God will whet his sword; *
he will bend his bow and make it rea-dy.

14 He has prepared his weapons of death; *
he makes his arrows shafts of fire.

15 Look at those who are in labor with wic-kedness, *
who conceive evil, and give birth to a lie .

16 They dig a pit and make it deep *
and fall into the hole that they have made.

17 Their malice turns back upon their own head; *
their violence falls on their own scalp.

18 I will bear witness that the LORD is right-eous; *
I will praise the Name of the LORD Most High.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Ho-ly Spir-it: *
as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ev-er. A-men.