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.
13. When they were sick, I wore sackcloth,and refrained from eating food.(If I am lying, may my prayers go unanswered!)
14. I mourned for them as I would for a friend or my brother.I bowed down in sorrow as if I were mourning for my mother.
15. But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together;they gathered together to ambush me.They tore at me without stopping to rest.
16. When I tripped, they taunted me relentlessly,and tried to bite me.
17. O Lord, how long are you going to just stand there and watch this?Rescue me from their destructive attacks;guard my life from the young lions!
18. Then I will give you thanks in the great assembly;I will praise you before a large crowd of people!