¹Give ear to my prayer, god; and do not reject my supplication.
²Hear me and answer me; return to my cry and incline to me,
³because of my enemies, because of the oppression of the wicked; for they have devised iniquity against me, and disgraced me.

⁴My heart is greatly pained inside me; and the terrors of death are fallen on me.
⁵Fearfulness and trembling have come on me, and the shadow of death has overwhelmed me.
⁶And I said, that I had wings like a dove, then I would fly away and be at rest.
⁷Look, then I would fly far off and live in the wilderness.

⁸I would wait for him who will save me from the windy storm and the tempest.

⁹Destroy, master, and render useless their tongues; for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
¹⁰Day and night they go about it, around its walls; injustice and mischief are in the middle of it.
¹¹Wickedness is in the middle of it; deceit and guile do not depart from its streets.

¹²For it was not my enemy that disgraced me; then I could have borne it; nor was it he that hated me, who magnified himself against me; then I would have hidden myself from him;
¹³but it was you, a man my equal, my kinsman, and my friend.
¹⁴We ate a meal together in the house of god, and we walked in harmony.
¹⁵Bring death on them; bury them alive in the grave, because there is evil among them.

¹⁶As for me, I will call on god; and god will save me.
¹⁷At evening and in the morning and at noon, I will pray and cry aloud; and he will hear my voice.
¹⁸Deliver my soul from those who have been too wise for me, from those who have opposed me continuously.
¹⁹God, even the eternal one, will hear and humble them. With them also are no changes; therefore they do not fear god.

²⁰They have put forth their hands against their neighbors, they have broken his contract.
²¹They were afraid because of the anger in his countenance and the wrath in his heart; his words were smoother than butter, yet were they sharp like the point of a spear.

²²Cast your worries on Yahvah and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to fear want.

²³But you, god, will bring them down into the well of destruction; bloody and deceitful men will not live out their days; but I will trust in you.