I Take Refuge in You 1 UDB Yahweh my God, I come to you to protect me. Rescue me; save me from all those who are pursuing me in order to harm me. BSB BSB: A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning the words of Cush, a Benjamite. O LORD my God, I take refuge in You; save me and deliver me from all my pursuers,
2 UDB If you do not do that, they will tear me into pieces like a lion does when it attacks the animals it wants to kill; no one will save me from them. BSB BSB: or they will shred my soul like a lion and tear me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
3 UDB Yahweh my God, suppose that I have done anything that is wrong, BSB BSB: O LORD my God, if I have done this, if injustice is on my hands,
4 UDB or that I have done evil to some friend, or that, for no good reason, I have harmed my enemies. BSB BSB: if I have rewarded my ally with evil, if I have plundered my foe without cause,
5 UDB Then allow my enemies to pursue me and capture me. Allow them to trample me into the ground and leave me lying dead in the dirt. BSB BSB: then may my enemy pursue me and overtake me; may he trample me to the ground and leave my honor in the dust. Selah
6 UDB Yahweh, because you are very angry with those who pursue me, arise and attack the ones attacking me! Do to them what you have said is just! BSB BSB: Arise, O LORD, in Your anger; rise up against the fury of my enemies. Awake, my God, and ordain judgment.
7 UDB The people of all nations gather around you to attack you, but you will rule them from where you are in heaven. BSB BSB: Let the assembled peoples gather around You; take Your seat over them on high.
8 UDB Yahweh, judge the people of all nations! Yahweh, show that I have done nothing wrong. BSB BSB: The LORD judges the peoples; vindicate me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and integrity.
9 UDB God, you know what every person is thinking in his inner being and because you are righteous, you always do what is just. So now stop evil people from doing wicked deeds, and defend all of us who are righteous! BSB BSB: Put an end to the evil of the wicked, but establish the righteous, O righteous God who searches hearts and minds.
10 UDB God, you protect me as a shield protects soldiers; you rescue all those who are righteous in their inner being. BSB BSB: My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.
11 UDB You judge everyone correctly, and every day you punish wicked people who insult your law. BSB BSB: God is a righteous judge and a God who feels indignation each day.
12 UDB Whenever your enemies do not repent, it is as though you sharpen your sword and put a string on your bow to get ready to kill them. BSB BSB: If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.
13 UDB You are preparing your weapons to kill those whom you strike; the arrows that you will shoot have flaming tips. BSB BSB: He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire.
14 UDB Wicked people plot their lies and evil things, they plan and take delight in their thoughts like a pregnant woman who is planning to give birth. BSB BSB: Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.
15 UDB But when they dig a deep pit to trap others, they themselves will fall into it. BSB BSB: He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.
16 UDB They themselves will experience the trouble that they want to cause others to have; they will hurt themselves by the violent things that they want to do to others. BSB BSB: His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.
17 UDB I praise Yahweh because he always acts righteously; I sing to praise Yahweh, the one who is much greater than any other god. BSB BSB: I will thank the LORD for His righteousness and sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.
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