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 If I have repaid my friend with evil, * or plundered him who without cause is my enemy;

Then let my enemy pursue and overtake me, * trample my life into the ground, and lay my honor in the dust.

Stand up, O, in your wrath; * rise up against the fury of my enemies.

Awake, O my God, decree justice; * let the assembly of the peoples gather round you.

Be seated on your lofty throne, O Most High; * O, judge the nations.

Give judgment for me according to my righteousness, O, * and according to my innocence, O Most High.

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

God is my shield and defense; * he is the savior of the true in heart.

God is a righteous judge; * God sits in judgment every day.

If they will not repent, God will whet his sword; * he will bend his bow and make it ready.

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

Look at those who are in labor with wickedness, * who conceive evil, and give birth to a lie.