Psalm 140:2

Contemporary English Version 1995

They think up evil plans and always cause trouble.

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They attack from ambush, watching my every step and hoping to kill me.

Those people stay awake, thinking up mischief, and they follow the wrong road, refusing to turn from sin.

Assyria, one of your rulers has made evil plans against the Lord.

Their anger is a fire that smolders all night, then flares up at dawn.

An evil mind is deceitful, but gentle thoughts bring happiness.

I am in favor of peace, but when I speak of it, all they want is war.

I feel like a shaky fence or a sagging wall. How long will all of you attack and assault me?

All who want me dead set traps to catch me, and those who want to harm and destroy me plan and plot all day.

All their plans to harm you will come to nothing.

Merciless enemies, Lord, are hiding and plotting, hoping to kill me. I have not hurt them in any way at all.