3Draw the spear and javelin against my pursuers; say to my soul, I am your salvation.
4Let them be put to shame and dishonor 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 the Lord driving them on.
6Let their way be dark and slippery, with the angel of the Lord pursuing them.
7For without cause they hid their net for me; without cause they dug a pit for my life.
8Let ruin come on them unawares. And let the net that they hid ensnare them; let them fall in itto their ruin.
9Then my soul shall rejoice in the Lord, exulting in his deliverance.
10All my bones shall say, O Lord, who is like you? You deliver the weak from those too strong for them, the weak and needy from those who despoil them.
11Malicious witnesses rise up; they ask me about things I do not know.
12They repay me evil for good; my soul is forlorn.
13But as for me, when they were sick, I wore sackcloth; I afflicted myself with fasting. I prayed with head bowed on my bosom,
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