O LORD, my God, if I have wronged anyone, if I have betrayed a friend or without cause done violence to my enemy --- if I have done any of these things---

then let my enemies pursue me and catch me, let them cut me down and kill me and leave me lifeless on the ground!

Defeat does not come to those who trust in you, but to those who are quick to rebel against you.

They are quick to spread their shameless lies; they destroy good people with cowardly slander.

This, however, was bound to happen so that what is written in their Law may come true: 'They hated me for no reason at all.'

The heathen have dug a pit and fallen in; they have been caught in their own trap.

The proud, who do not obey your law, have dug pits to trap me.

The proud have set a trap for me; they have laid their snares, and along the path they have set traps to catch me.

They walk into a net, and their feet are caught;