¹  Rescue me, O LORD, from evil men;
      protect me from men of violence,
²  who devise evil plans in their hearts
      and stir up war every day.
³  They make their tongues as sharp as a serpent's;
      the poison of vipers is on their lips.             Selah

⁴  Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked;
      protect me from men of violence
      who plan to trip my feet.
⁵  Proud men have hidden a snare for me;
      they have spread out the cords of their net
      and have set traps for me along my path.    Selah

⁶  O LORD, I say to you, "You are my God."
      Hear, O LORD, my cry for mercy.
⁷  O Sovereign LORD, my strong deliverer,
      who shields my head in the day of battle-
⁸  do not grant the wicked their desires, O LORD;
      do not let their plans succeed,
      or they will become proud.Selah

⁹  Let the heads of those who surround me
      be covered with the trouble their lips have caused.
¹⁰ Let burning coals fall upon them;
      may they be thrown into the fire,
      into miry pits, never to rise.
¹¹ Let slanderers not be established in the land;
      may disaster hunt down men of violence.

¹² I know that the LORD secures justice for the poor
      and upholds the cause of the needy.
¹³ Surely the righteous will praise your name
      and the upright will live before you.