2. For the wicked and the deceitful have opened their mouth against me. They spoke to me with a lying tongue,
3. with hateful words surrounded me, and fought against me without cause.
4. In return for my love they are my accusers, but I am in prayer.
5. They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
6. Set a wicked man over him, let an accuser stand at his right hand.
7. When he is judged, let him be found guilty, and may his prayer be as sin.
8. Let his days be few, let another take his position.
9. May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
10. Let his children wander and beg and may they search in their ruins.
11. Let a creditor seize all he has, and may strangers plunder his labor.
12. Let no one show him mercy, or take pity on his fatherless children.
13. Let his posterity be cut off, and his name be blotted out in the next generation.