When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
Why do you, as if you were God, pursue and persecute me? [Acting like wild beasts] why are you not satisfied with my flesh?
[Just ask] if the men of my tent will not say, Who can find one in need who has not been satisfied with food he gave them?–
They swarmed about me like bees, they blaze up and are extinguished like a fire of thorns; in the name of the Lord I will cut them off! [Deut. 1:44.]
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread and who do not call on the Lord?
The cords or bands of death surrounded me, and the streams of ungodliness and the torrents of ruin terrified me.
For [like a pack of] dogs they have encompassed me; a company of evildoers has encircled me, they pierced my hands and my feet. [Isa. 53:7; John 19:37.]
Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God! For You have struck all my enemies on the cheek; You have broken the teeth of the ungodly.
Have those who work evil no knowledge (no understanding)? They eat up My people as they eat bread; they do not call upon God.
When my enemies turned back, they stumbled and perished before You.
And many among them shall stumble thereon; and they shall fall and be broken, and be snared and taken.