Holy Scripture
Psalms 7:5
A church father on this verse
“The soul of the one who is just, severing itself from affection for the body, has its life hidden with Christ in God, so that it can say like the apostle: "It is now no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me. And the life that I now live in the flesh, I live in faith." But the soul of the sinner and of one who liv…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
5If I have requited with evil those who requited me with good; May I then perish empty by means of my enemies.
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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);
— Psalms 7:5 —
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.