1. Contend, O Yahweh, with my contenders; fight those who fight me.
2. Grasp buckler and shield and rise to my aid.
3. And draw the spear and javelin to meet those who pursue me. Say to my soul, “I am your salvation.”
4. Let those who seek my life be shamed and humiliated. Let those who plot calamity against me be repulsed and ashamed.
5. Let them be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of Yahweh driving them.
6. Let their way be dark and slippery, with the angel of Yahweh pursuing them.
7. For without cause they secretly hide the pit with their net for me; without cause they dug it for my life.
8. Let unforeseen ruin come on him, and his net that he hid, let it catch him. Let him fall into it in ruin.
9. Then my soul will rejoice in Yahweh; it will rejoice in his salvation.
10. All of my bones shall say, “O Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from one stronger than he and the poor and needy from the one who robs him?”
11. Violent witnesses rise up; they ask me concerning what I do not know.