Let them be put to shame and confounded together\par\tab That seek after my soul to destroy it:\par\tab Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor\par\tab That delight in my hurt.
And though men be risen up to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul, yet the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with Jehovah thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as from the hollow of a sling.
But thou art cast forth away from thy sepulchre like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, that are thrust through with the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a dead body trodden under foot.
Sheol from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming; it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Let them be put to shame and confounded\par\tab That seek after my soul:\par\tab Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor\par\tab That delight in my hurt.
But thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction:\par\tab Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days;\par\tab But I will trust in thee.\par
They also that seek after my life lay snares {\i for me};\par\tab And they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things,\par\tab And meditate deceits all the day long.
Let them be put to shame and confounded together that rejoice at my hurt:\par\tab Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify themselves against me.
Moreover Jehovah will deliver Israel also with thee into the hand of the Philistines; and to-morrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me: Jehovah will deliver the host of Israel also into the hand of the Philistines.
Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness,\par\tab Leaning upon her beloved?\par\tab Under the apple-tree I awakened thee:\par\tab There thy mother was in travail with thee,\par\tab There was she in travail that brought thee forth.