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.
16. Like profane mockers at feasts [making sport for the price of a cake] they gnashed at me with their teeth.
17. Lord, how long will You look on [without action]? Rescue my life from their destructions, my dear and only life from the lions!
18. I will give You thanks in the great assembly; I will praise You among a mighty throng.
19. Let not those who are wrongfully my foes rejoice over me; neither let them wink with the eye who hate me without cause. [John 15:24, 25.]
20. For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful matters against those who are quiet in the land.
21. Yes, they open their mouths wide against me; they say, Aha! Aha! Our eyes have seen it!
22. You have seen this, O Lord; keep not silence! O Lord, be not far from me!
23. Arouse Yourself, awake to the justice due me, even to my cause, my God and my Lord!