Psalm 54:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For the insolent have risen against me; the ruthless seek my life; they do not set God before them. Selah

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O God, the insolent rise up against me; a band of ruffians seeks my life, and they do not set you before them.

Transgression speaks to the wicked deep in their hearts; there is no fear of God before their eyes.

And they will do this because they have not known the Father or me.

Have they no knowledge, those evildoers, who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon God?

Let all those be put to shame and confusion who seek to snatch away my life; let those be turned back and brought to dishonor who desire my hurt.

For dogs are all around me; a company of evildoers encircles me; they bound my hands and feet.

I keep the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

I have become a stranger to my kindred, an alien to my mother’s children.

May he send you help from the sanctuary and give you support from Zion.

Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people; from those who are deceitful and unjust, deliver me!