Mezmurlar 7

¹Benyaminli Kusi'nin sözleri üzerine, Davut'un Rab'be söylediği mezmur.

²Ey Tanrım Rab, sana sığındım; beni kovalayanların hepsinden beni kurtar ve beni esirge.

³Yoksa bir aslan gibi canımı kapıp parçalayacak; kurtaracak bir fidye ödeyen ya da esirgeyen biri de olmayacak.

⁴Ey Tanrım Rab, eğer bunu yaptıysam, eğer ellerimde bir haksızlık varsa,

⁵eğer bana kötülük edenlere kötülükle karşılık verdiysem, öyleyse düşmanlarımdan eli boş ve her şeyimi kaybetmiş olarak düşeyim.

⁶Öyleyse düşman canımı kovalasın, yakalasın, hayatımı yerde çiğnesin ve onurumu toza gömsün. (Selah)

⁷Kalk ey Rab öfkenle, düşmanlarının sınırlarında yüksel; uyan ey Tanrım Rab, buyurduğun yargı uyarınca.

⁸Ulusların topluluğu çevreni sarsın; ve bu topluluğun üzerinde yücelere geri dön.

⁹Rab halkları yargılar; yargıla beni ey Rab, doğruluğuma ve üzerimde olan masumiyetime göre.

¹⁰Günahkarların kötülüğü artık son bulsun ve doğru olanı doğrult; ey yürekleri ve böbrekleri araştıran Tanrı.

¹¹Benim adil yardımım, yüreği temiz olanları kurtaran Tanrı'nın katındandır.

¹²Tanrı adil, güçlü ve sabırlı bir yargıçtır; her gün öfke yöneltmeyendir.

¹³Eğer tövbe edip dönmezseniz, O kılıcını biler; yayını gerdi ve onu hazırladı.

¹⁴O'nun için ölümcül silahlar hazırladı, oklarını yananlar için işledi.

¹⁵İşte, haksızlığın doğum sancısını çekti, sıkıntıya gebe kaldı ve yasasızlığı doğurdu.

¹⁶Bir kuyu kazıp onu derinleştirdi, ama kendi yapmış olduğu çukura kendisi düşecek.

¹⁷Verdiği sıkıntı kendi başına geri dönecek, yaptığı haksızlık kendi tepesine inecek.

¹⁸Doğruluğuna göre Rab'be şükredeceğim ve Yüceler Yücesi Rab'bin adına ezgiler sunacağım.

¹Ψαλμὸς τῷ Δαυΐδ, ὃν ᾖσε τῷ Κυρίῳ ὑπὲρ τῶν λόγων Χουσὶ υἱοῦ ᾿Ιεμενεί. -

²ΚΥΡΙΕ ὁ Θεός μου, ἐπὶ σοὶ ἤλπισα· σῶσόν με ἐκ πάντων τῶν διωκόντων με καὶ ῥῦσαί με,

³μήποτε ἁρπάσῃ ὡς λέων τὴν ψυχήν μου, μὴ ὄντος λυτρουμένου μηδὲ σῴζοντος.

⁴Κύριε ὁ Θεός μου, εἰ ἐποίησα τοῦτο, εἰ ἔστιν ἀδικία ἐν χερσί μου,

⁵εἰ ἀνταπέδωκα τοῖς ἀνταποδιδοῦσί μοι κακά, ἀποπέσοιμι ἄρα ἀπὸ τῶν ἐχθρῶν μου κενός·

⁶καταδιώξαι ἄρα ὁ ἐχθρὸς τὴν ψυχήν μου καὶ καταλάβοι καὶ καταπατήσαι εἰς γῆν τὴν ζωήν μου καὶ τὴν δόξαν μου εἰς χοῦν κατασκηνώσαι. (διάψαλμα).

⁷ἀνάστηθι, Κύριε, ἐν ὀργῇ σου, ὑψώθητι ἐν τοῖς πέρασι τῶν ἐχθρῶν σου. ἐξεγέρθητι, Κύριε ὁ Θεός μου, ἐν προστάγματι, ᾧ ἐνετείλω,

⁸καὶ συναγωγὴ λαῶν κυκλώσει σε, καὶ ὑπὲρ ταύτης εἰς ὕψος ἐπίστρεψον.

⁹Κύριος κρινεῖ λαούς. κρῖνόν με, Κύριε, κατὰ τὴν δικαιοσύνην μου καὶ κατὰ τὴν ἀκακίαν μου ἐπ᾿ ἐμοί.

¹⁰συντελεσθήτω δὴ πονηρία ἁμαρτωλῶν καὶ κατευθυνεῖς δίκαιον, ἐτάζων καρδίας καὶ νεφροὺς ὁ Θεός.

¹¹δικαία ἡ βοήθειά μου παρὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ τοῦ σῴζοντος τοὺς εὐθεῖς τῇ καρδίᾳ.

¹²ὁ Θεὸς κριτὴς δίκαιος καὶ ἰσχυρὸς καὶ μακρόθυμος καὶ μὴ ὀργὴν ἐπάγων καθ᾿ ἑκάστην ἡμέραν.

¹³ἐὰν μὴ ἐπιστραφῆτε, τὴν ῥομφαίαν αὐτοῦ στιλβώσει, τὸ τόξον αὐτοῦ ἐνέτεινε καὶ ἡτοίμασεν αὐτό·

¹⁴καὶ ἐν αὐτῷ ἡτοίμασε σκεύη θανάτου, τὰ βέλη αὐτοῦ τοῖς καιομένοις ἐξειργάσατο.

¹⁵ἰδοὺ ὠδίνησεν ἀδικίαν, συνέλαβε πόνον καὶ ἔτεκεν ἀνομίαν.

¹⁶λάκκον ὤρυξε καὶ ἀνέσκαψεν αὐτόν, καὶ ἐμπεσεῖται εἰς βόθρον, ὃν εἰργάσατο·

¹⁷ἐπιστρέψει ὁ πόνος αὐτοῦ εἰς κεφαλὴν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐπὶ κορυφὴν αὐτοῦ ἡ ἀδικία αὐτοῦ καταβήσεται.

¹⁸ἐξομολογήσομαι τῷ Κυρίῳ κατὰ τὴν δικαιοσύνην αὐτοῦ καὶ ψαλῶ τῷ ὀνόματι Κυρίου τοῦ ῾Υψίστου.

¹[A Psalm of David, which he sang to the Lord because of the words of Chusi the Benjamite.]

²O Lord my God, in thee have I trusted: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me.

³Lest at any time [the enemy] seize my soul as a lion, while there is none to ransom, nor to save.

⁴O Lord my God, if I have done this; (if there is unrighteousness in my hands;)

⁵if I have requited with evil those who requited me [with good]; may I then perish empty by means of my enemies.

⁶Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; and let him trample my life on the ground, and lay my glory in the dust. Pause.

⁷Arise, O Lord, in thy wrath; be exalted in the utmost boundaries of mine enemies: awake, O Lord my God, according to the decree which thou didst command.

⁸And the congregation of the nations shall compass thee: and for this cause do thou return on high.

⁹The Lord shall judge the nations: judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, and according to my innocence that is in me.

¹⁰Oh let the wickedness of sinners come to an end; and [then] thou shalt direct the righteous, O God that searchest the hearts and reins.

¹¹My help is righteous, [coming] from God who saves the upright in heart.

¹²God is a righteous judge, and strong, and patient, not inflicting vengeance every day.

¹³If ye will not repent, he will furbish his sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready.

¹⁴And on it he has fitted the instruments of death; he has completed his arrows for the raging ones.

¹⁵Behold, he has travailed with unrighteousness, he has conceived trouble, and brought forth iniquity.

¹⁶He has opened a pit, and dug it up, and he shall fall into the ditch which he has made.

¹⁷His trouble shall return on his own head, and his unrighteousness shall come down on his own crown.

¹⁸I will give thanks to the Lord according to his righteousness; I will sing to the name of the Lord most high.