For the leader. A psalm of David.
Drop burning coals upon them; cast them into the watery pit never more to rise.
Who sharpen their tongue like a serpent, venom of asps upon their lips. Selah
Rise, O Lord, confront and cast them down; rescue my soul from the wicked.
O God who granted me vengeance, made peoples subject to me,
Grant me justice, O God; defend me from a faithless people; from the deceitful and unjust rescue me.
My God, rescue me from the hand of the wicked, from the clutches of the evil and violent.
