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.
15. But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered;they gathered together against me; wretches whom I did not knowtore at me without ceasing;
16. like profane mockers at a feast,they gnash at me with their teeth.
17. How long, O Lord, will you look on?Rescue me from their destruction, my precious life from the lions!
18. I will thank you in the great congregation;in the mighty throng I will praise you.
19. Let not those rejoice over mewho are wrongfully my foes,and let not those wink the eyewho hate me without cause.
20. For they do not speak peace,but against those who are quiet in the landthey devise words of deceit.
21. They open wide their mouths against me;they say, “Aha, Aha!Our eyes have seen it!”