1. A psalm of David. Adonai, oppose those who oppose me. Fight those who fight me.
2. Take hold of shield and buckler, and rise up to my help.
3. Draw out also a spear and battle-axe. Stop those who pursue me. Say to my soul: “I am your salvation.”
4. May those who seek my life be ashamed and disgraced. May they be turned back and humiliated —those who plot evil against me.
5. May they be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of Adonai driving them off.
6. May their way be dark and slippery, with the angel of Adonai pursuing them.
7. For without cause they hid their net for me, and without cause they dug a pit for my soul.
8. Let ruin come upon him by surprise. Let the net he hid entangle himself —into that same pit let him fall.