4. Let them be put to shame and dishonorwho seek after my life!Let them be turned back and disappointedwho devise evil against me!
5. Let them be like chaff before the wind,with the angel of the Lord driving them away!
6. Let their way be dark and slippery,with the angel of the Lord pursuing them!
7. For without cause they hid their net for me;without cause they dug a pit for my life.
8. Let destruction come upon him when he does not know it!And let the net that he hid ensnare him;let him fall into it—to his destruction!
9. Then my soul will rejoice in the Lord, exulting in his salvation.
10. All my bones shall say,“O Lord, who is like you,delivering the poorfrom him who is too strong for him,the poor and needy from him who robs him?”
11. Malicious witnesses rise up;they ask me of things that I do not know.
12. They repay me evil for good;my soul is bereft.
13. But I, when they were sick—I wore sackcloth;I afflicted myself with fasting;I prayed with head bowed on my chest.
14. I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother;as one who laments his mother,I bowed down in mourning.