by what the enemy says and how the wicked look at me. They bring troubles down on me, and in anger they attack me.
Then Absalom would say, “Look, your claims are right, but the king has no one to listen to you.”
He said to the king, “My master, don’t hold me guilty. Don’t remember the wrong I did when you left Jerusalem! Don’t hold it against me.
But the Lord says, “I will now rise up, because the poor are being hurt. Because of the moans of the helpless, I will give them the help they want.”
Keep me from the wicked who attack me, from my enemies who surround me.
Do not hand me over to my enemies, because they tell lies about me and say they will hurt me.
Men without mercy stand up to testify. They ask me things I do not know.
Strangers turn against me, and cruel people want to kill me. They do not care about God.Selah
They say, “God has left him. Go after him and take him, because no one will save him.”
They make fun of others and speak evil; proudly they speak of hurting others.
The leading priests and the whole Jewish council tried to find something false against Jesus so they could kill him.