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¹ BY DAVID. Strive, YHWH, with my strivers, fight with my fighters,² Take hold of shield and buckler, and rise for my help,³ And draw out spear and lance, || To meet my pursuers. Say to my soul, "I [am] your salvation."⁴ They are ashamed and blush, those seeking my soul, || Turned backward and confounded, || Those devising my evil.⁵ They are as chaff before wind, || And a messenger of YHWH driving away.⁶ Their way is darkness and slipperiness, || And a messenger of YHWH—their pursuer.⁷ For without cause they hid their net [in] a pit for me, || Without cause they dug for my soul.⁸ Desolation meets him—he does not know, || And his net that he hid catches him, || He falls into it for desolation.⁹ And my soul is joyful in YHWH, || It rejoices in His salvation.¹⁰ All my bones say, "YHWH, who is like You, || Delivering the poor from the [one] stronger than he, || And the poor and needy from his plunderer."

¹¹ Violent witnesses rise up, || That which I have not known they ask me.¹² They pay me evil for good, bereaving my soul,¹³ And I—in their sickness my clothing [is] sackcloth, || I have humbled my soul with fastings, || And my prayer returns to my bosom.¹⁴ As [if] a friend, as [if] my brother, || I habitually walked, || As a mourner for a mother, || I have bowed down mourning.¹⁵ And they have rejoiced in my halting, || And have been gathered together, || The strikers were gathered against me, || And I have not known, || They have torn, and they have not ceased;¹⁶ With profane ones, mockers in feasts, || Gnashing their teeth against me.

¹⁷ Lord, how long do You behold? Keep my soul back from their desolations, || My only one from young lions.¹⁸ I thank You in a great assembly, || I praise You among a mighty people.¹⁹ Do not let my enemies rejoice over me [with] falsehood, || Those hating me without cause wink the eye.²⁰ For they do not speak peace, || And against the quiet of the land, || They devise deceitful words,²¹ And they enlarge their mouth against me, || They said, "Aha, aha, our eye has seen."²² You have seen, O YHWH, || Do not be silent, O Lord—do not be far from me,²³ Stir up, and wake to my judgment, || My God, and my Lord, to my plea.²⁴ Judge me according to Your righteousness, O YHWH my God, || And they do not rejoice over me.²⁵ They do not say in their heart, "Aha, our desire." They do not say, "We swallowed him up."²⁶ They are ashamed and confounded together, || Who are rejoicing at my evil. They put on shame and confusion, || Who are magnifying themselves against me.²⁷ They sing and rejoice, who are desiring my righteousness, || And they continually say, "YHWH is magnified, || Who is desiring the peace of His servant."²⁸ And my tongue utters Your righteousness, || All the day Your praise!