| International Standard Version | English Standard Version |
| 1LORD, my God, I seek refuge in you. Deliver me from those who persecute me! Rescue me! | 1O LORD my God, in you do I take refuge; save me from all my pursuers and deliver me, |
| 2Otherwise, they will rip me to shreds like a lion, tearing me apart with no one to rescue me. | 2lest like a lion they tear my soul apart, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver. |
| 3LORD, my God, if I have done this thing, if there is injustice on my hands, | 3O LORD my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands, |
| 4if I have rewarded those who did me good with evil, if I have plundered my enemy without justification, | 4if I have repaid my friend with evil or plundered my enemy without cause, |
| 5then, let my enemy pursue me, let him overtake me, and let him trample my life to the ground. Interlude Let him put my honor into the dust. | 5let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it, and let him trample my life to the ground and lay my glory in the dust. Selah |
| 6Get up, LORD, in your anger! Rise up, because of the fury of my enemies; Arouse yourself for me; you have ordained justice. | 6Arise, O LORD, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake for me; you have appointed a judgment. |
| 7Let the assembly of the peoples gather around you, and you will sit high above them. | 7Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you; over it return on high. |
| 8For the LORD will judge the peoples. Judge me according to my righteousness, LORD, and according to my integrity, Exalted One. | 8The LORD judges the peoples; judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me. |
| 9Let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous. For you are the righteous God who discerns the inner thoughts. | 9Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous— you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God! |
| 10God is my shield, the one who delivers the upright in heart. | 10My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart. |
| 11God is a righteous judge, a God who is angry with sinners every day. | 11God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day. |
| 12If the ungodly one doesn't repent, God will sharpen his sword; he will string his bow and prepare it. | 12If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and readied his bow; |
| 13He prepares weapons of death for himself, he makes his arrows into fiery shafts. | 13he has prepared for him his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts. |
| 14But the wicked one travails with evil, he conceives malice and gives birth to lies. | 14Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies. |
| 15He digs a pit, even excavates it; then he fell into the hole that he had made. | 15He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole that he has made. |
| 16The trouble he planned will return on his own head, and his violence will descend on his skull. | 16His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own skull his violence descends. |
| 17But as for me, I will praise the LORD for his righteousness, and I will sing to the name of the LORD Most High. | 17I will give to the LORD the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the LORD, the Most High. |
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