Do not deliver me over to the will of my enemies; for false witnesses have risen up against me, and such as breathe out violence.

Shall the throne of iniquity, which fashions trouble by decree, have fellowship with You?

They gather together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

And someone reported to David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O Jehovah, I pray, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness!

He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot bring about their success;

He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the twisted is precipitated.

had I not feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should misunderstand, lest they should say, our hand is high; and Jehovah has not done all this.