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.