LEB PSA Chapter 7

Prayer for Deliverance from Enemies

• on account of Cush, a Benjaminite.[fn]
• 7 Save me from all who pursue me, and deliver me.
• 2  ripping to pieces, with none to deliver.
• 3  if there is wrong in my hands,
• 4 [fn] with harm, or if I have plundered my enemy without cause,
• 5  and overtake and trample my life into the ground,
• and lay my honor in the dust.Selah
• 6  and lift yourself up against the wrath[fn] of my oppressors,
• and awake for me,
• since you have commanded judgment.
• 7 the assembly of peoples surround you, and over it return on high.
• 8  O Yahweh, vindicate me
• according to my innocence[fn] and according to my integrity within me.
• 9  but establish the righteous,
• and test the hearts and innermost being, O righteous God.
• 10 is with God who saves the upright of heart.
• 11 is a righteous judge, and a God who has indignation every day.
• 12 [fn] does not repent, he[fn] will sharpen his sword. He has bent his bow and he has[fn] it.
• 13  He has made his arrows fiery shafts.
• 14 [fn] travails with[fn] evil. He is pregnant with trouble,
• and he gives birth to deception.
• 15  then falls in the trap he has made.
• 16  and his violence comes down on his skull.
• 17  and I will sing praise to the name of Yahweh, the Most High.