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7.4 :If I have requited him that did evil unto me,
 * Or spoiled mine adversary unto emptiness;
 * Let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it,
 * And tread my life down to the earth;
 * Yea, let him lay my glory in the dust.


 * Arise, O, in Thine anger,
 * Lift up Thyself in indignation against mine adversaries;
 * Yea, awake for me at the judgment which Thou hast commanded.
 * And let the congregation of the peoples compass Thee about,
 * And over them return Thou on high.


 * O, who ministerest judgment to the peoples,
 * Judge me, O ,
 * According to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.
 * Oh that a full measure of evil might come upon the wicked,
 * And that Thou wouldest establish the righteous;
 * For the righteous God trieth the heart and reins.
 * My shield is with God,
 * Who saveth the upright in heart.
 * God is a righteous judge,
 * Yea, a God that hath indignation every day:
 * If a man turn not, He will whet His sword,
 * He hath bent His bow, and made it ready;
 * He hath also prepared for him the weapons of death,
 * Yea, His arrows which He made sharp.
 * Behold, he travaileth with iniquity;
 * Yea, he conceiveth mischief, and bringeth forth falsehood.
 * He hath digged a pit, and hollowed it,
 * And is fallen into the ditch which he made.
 * His mischief shall return upon his own head,
 * And his violence shall come down upon his own pate.


 * I will give thanks unto the according to His righteousness;
 * And will sing praise to the name of the Most High.

For the Leader; upon the Gittith. A Psalm of David.


 * O, our Lord,
 * How glorious is Thy name in all the earth!
 * Whose majesty is rehearsed above the heavens.
 * Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast Thou founded strength,
 * Because of Thine adversaries;
 * That Thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.


 * When I behold Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers,
 * The moon and the stars, which Thou hast established;
 * What is man, that Thou art mindful of him?
 * And the son of man, that Thou thinkest of him?
 * Yet Thou hast made him but little lower than the angels,
 * And hast crowned him with glory and honour.
 * Thou hast made him to have dominion over the works of Thy hands;
 * Thou hast put all things under His feet: