2. Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help!
3. Draw out also the spear and javelin and close up the way of those who pursue and persecute me. Say to me, I am your deliverance!
4. Let them be put to shame and dishonor who seek and require my life; let them be turned back and confounded who plan my hurt!
5. Let them be as chaff before the wind, with the Angel of the Lord driving them on!
6. Let their way be through dark and slippery places, with the Angel of the Lord pursuing and afflicting them.
7. For without cause they hid for me their net; a pit of destruction without cause they dug for my life.
8. Let destruction befall [my foe] unawares; let the net he hid for me catch him; let him fall into that very destruction.
9. Then I shall be joyful in the Lord; I shall rejoice in His deliverance.
10. All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like You, You Who deliver the poor and the afflicted from him who is too strong for him, yes, the poor and the needy from him who snatches away his goods?
11. Malicious and unrighteous witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I know not.
12. They reward me evil for good to my personal bereavement.
13. But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I afflicted myself with fasting, and I prayed with head bowed on my breast.
14. I behaved as if grieving for my friend or my brother; I bowed down in sorrow, as one who bewails his mother.
15. But in my stumbling and limping they rejoiced and gathered together [against me]; the smiters (slanderers and revilers) gathered against me, and I knew them not; they ceased not to slander and revile me.