{ "1": "Yahweh my God, I take refuge in you!\n\\q Save me from all who chase me, and rescue me.\n\\q", "2": "Otherwise, they will rip me apart like a lion,\n\\q tearing me in pieces with no one else able to bring me to safety.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "3": "Yahweh my God, if I have done this, \n\\q and there is guilt on my hands—\n\\q", "4": "if I have done evil to him who was at peace with me,\n\\q or senselessly harmed my enemy without cause, then hear my words.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "5": "Then let my enemy pursue my life and overtake me;\n\\q let him trample my life to the ground\n\\q and lay my honor in the dust.\n\\qs Selah\\qs*\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "6": "Arise, Yahweh, in your anger;\n\\q stand up against the rage of my enemies;\n\\q wake up for my sake and carry out the righteous decrees that you have commanded for them.\n\\q", "7": "The countries are assembled all around you;\n\\q take once more your rightful place over them.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "8": "Yahweh, judge the nations;\n\\q vindicate me, Yahweh, because I am righteous and innocent, Most High.\n\\q", "9": "May the evil deeds of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous people,\n\\q righteous God, you who examine hearts and minds.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "10": "My shield comes from God,\n\\q the one who saves the upright in heart.\n\\q", "11": "God is a righteous judge,\n\\q a God who is indignant each day.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "12": "If a person does not repent, God will sharpen his sword\n\\q and will prepare his bow for battle.\n\\q", "13": "He prepares to use weapons against him;\n\\q he makes his arrows flaming shafts.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "14": "Think about the one who is pregnant with wickedness,\n\\q who conceives destructive plans, who gives birth to harmful lies.\n\\q", "15": "He digs a pit and hollows it out\n\\q and then falls into the hole he has made.\n\\q", "16": "His own destructive plans return to his own head,\n\\q for his violence comes down on his own head.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "17": "I will give thanks to Yahweh for his justice;\n\\q I will sing praise to Yahweh Most High.\n\n\n\\s5", "front": "\\m\n\\d A musical composition of David, which he sang to Yahweh concerning the words of Cush the Benjamite.\n\\q" }