My enemies have trodden on me all the day long; for they are many that make war against me.
Extend thy mercy to them that know thee, and thy justice to them that are right in heart.
And the chief priests and the whole council sought false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death:
They said in their heart, the whole kindred of them together: Let us abolish all the festival days of God from the land.
And all kings of the earth shall adore him: all nations shall serve him.
be attentive to me and hear me. I am grieved in my exercise; and am troubled,
There went up a smoke in his wrath: and a fire flamed from his face: coals were kindled by it.
lest at any time my enemy say: I have prevailed against him. They that trouble me will rejoice when I am moved:
Said to him: Impute not to me, my lord, the iniquity, nor remember the injuries of thy servant on the day that thou, my lord, the king, wentest out of Jerusalem, nor lay it up in thy heart, O king.
And Absalom answered him: Thy words seem to me good and just. But there is no man appointed by the king to hear thee. And Absalom said: