But, O Jehovah of Hosts, who tries the righteous and sees the soul and the heart, let me see Your vengeance on them. For I have made my cause known to You.

As for me, I will call upon God, and Jehovah will deliver me.

Evening and morning and at noon I meditate and am in a stir; and He will hear my voice.

i1 [To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] i0 par Hear my voice, O God, in my meditation; preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

who sharpen their tongue like a sword. They have bent their bows to shoot their arrows; even bitter words,

i1 [To the chief Musician. Jonathelemrechokim. Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath.] i0 par Be merciful to me, O God, for man would swallow me up. Fighting daily, he oppresses me.

When I am afraid I trust in You.

In return for my love they are my adversaries, but I am in prayer.

Let them curse, but You will bless; when they arise, let them be ashamed, but let Your servant rejoice.

Do not rejoice against me, O my enemy; for if I fall, I shall arise. For if I sit in darkness, Jehovah is a light to me.

But they were filled with madness, and discussed with one another what they might do to Jesus.

Now it came to pass in those days that He went out into the mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.

Extend Your ear, O Jehovah, and hear; open Your eyes, O Jehovah, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the living God.

Hear, O our God, for we are despised; turn their reproach upon their own heads, and give them as spoils to a land of captivity.

Do not cover their iniquity, and do not let their sin be blotted out from before You; for they have provoked You to anger before the builders.

For they all were trying to make us afraid, saying, Their hands will be weakened in the work, and it will not be done. Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands.