Watch me from the hands of the snare they will lay for me, and the snares of those working iniquity.
The unjust one gave a snare for me, and I wandered not from thy charges.
The proud hid a snare for me, and cords; they spread a net at the hand of the way; they set snares for me. Silence.
In my spirit languishing upon me, and thou knewest my beaten paths. In the way which I shall go they hid a snare for me.
Looking upon the right hand, and seeing, and none caring for me: flight perished from me; none sought for my soul
My friends and my neighbors will stand from before my stroke, and my kindred stood from far off.
My heart was prepared, O God, my heart was prepared: I will sing and play on the harp.
Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, they bent their arrows a bitter word:
The law of the wise one a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
A cry shall be heard from their houses, for thou shalt bring upon them a trap suddenly, for they dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet
And having observed narrowly, they sent liers-in-wait, feigning themselves to be just, that they might seize upon his word, to deliver him to the beginning and authority of the leader.