4. Let those who seek my lifebe put to shame and disgrace.Let those who plot evil against mebe turned back and confounded.
5. Make them like chaff before the wind,with the angel of the Lord driving them on.
6. Make their way slippery and dark,with the angel of the Lord pursuing them.
7. Without cause they set their snare for me;without cause they dug a pit for me.
8. Let ruin overtake them unawares;let the snare they have set catch them;let them fall into the pit they have dug.
9. Then I will rejoice in the Lord,exult in God’s salvation.
10. My very bones shall say,“O Lord, who is like you,Who rescue the afflicted from the powerful,the afflicted and needy from the despoiler?”
11. Malicious witnesses rise up,accuse me of things I do not know.
12. They repay me evil for good;my soul is desolate.
13. Yet I, when they were ill, put on sackcloth,afflicted myself with fasting,sobbed my prayers upon my bosom.
14. I went about in grief as for my brother,bent in mourning as for my mother.
15. Yet when I stumbled they gathered with glee,gathered against me and I did not know it.They slandered me without ceasing;
16. without respect they mocked me,gnashed their teeth against me.
17. O Lord, how long will you look on?Restore my soul from their destruction,my very life from lions!