3. Use your spear and lance against those who chase me!Assure me with these words: “I am your deliverer!”
4. May those who seek my life be embarrassed and humiliated!May those who plan to harm me be turned back and ashamed!
5. May they be like wind-driven chaff,as the Lord’s angel attacks them!
6. May their path be dark and slippery,as the Lord’s angel chases them!
7. I did not harm them, but they hid a net to catch meand dug a pit to trap me.
8. Let destruction take them by surprise!Let the net they hid catch them!Let them fall into destruction!
9. Then I will rejoice in the Lordand be happy because of his deliverance.
10. With all my strength I will say,“O Lord, who can compare to you?You rescue the oppressed from those who try to overpower them;the oppressed and needy from those who try to rob them.”
11. Violent men perjure themselves,and falsely accuse me.
12. They repay me evil for the good I have done;I am overwhelmed with sorrow.