If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
[A Psalm of David when he fled from Absalom his son.] LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.
Many there be who say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.
The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to slay him.
In God will I praise his word: in the LORD will I praise his word.