⁴Let them be put to shame and dishonour who seek after my life!
Let them be turned back and confounded who devise evil against me!
⁵Let them be like chaff before the wind,
with the angel of Yahweh driving them on!
⁶Let their way be dark and slippery,
with the angel of Yahweh pursuing them!

⁷For without cause they hid their net for me;
without cause they dug a pit for my life.
⁸Let ruin come upon them unawares!
And let the net which they hid ensnare them;
let them fall therein to ruin!

⁹Then my soul shall rejoice in Yahweh,
exulting in his deliverance.
¹⁰All my bones shall say, " O Yahweh, who is like you,
you who deliver the weak from him who is too strong for him,
the weak and needy from him who despoils him?"

¹¹Malicious witnesses rise up;
they ask me of things that I know not.
¹²They requite me evil for good;
my soul is forlorn.
¹³But I, when they were sick -I wore sackcloth, I afflicted myself with fasting.
I prayed with head bowed on my bosom,
¹⁴as though I grieved for my friend or my brother;
I went about as one who laments his mother, bowed down and in mourning.

¹⁵But at my stumbling they gathered in glee, they gathered together against me;
cripples whom I knew not slandered me without ceasing;
¹⁶they impiously mocked more and more,
gnashing at me with their teeth.

¹⁷How long, O Yahweh, will you look on?
Rescue me from their ravages, my life from the lions!
¹⁸Then I will thank you in the great congregation;
in the mighty throng I will praise you.

¹⁹Let not those rejoice over me who are wrongfully my foes,
and let not those wink the eye who hate me without cause.
²⁰For they do not speak peace,
but against those who are quiet in the land they conceive words of deceit.
²¹They open wide their mouths against me;
they say, "Aha, Aha! our eyes have seen it!"

²²You have seen, O Yahweh; be not silent!
O Yahweh, be not far from me!
²³Bestir yourself, and awake for my right,
for my cause, my God and my Yahweh!
²⁴Vindicate me, O Yahweh, my God, according to your righteousness;
and let them not rejoice over me!
²⁵Let them not say to themselves, "Aha, we have our heart's desire!"
Let them not say, "We have swallowed him up."

²⁶Let them be put to shame and confusion altogether who rejoice at my calamity!
Let them be clothed with shame and dishonour who magnify themselves against me!

²⁷Let those who desire my vindication shout for joy and be glad,
and say evermore, "Great is Yahweh, who delights in the welfare of his servant!"
²⁸Then my tongue shall tell of your righteousness
and of your praise all the day long.