Those who pursue mischief have drawn near; They have been far from Your Torah.
When evil-doers come against me To eat up my flesh, My adversaries and my enemies, They shall stumble and fall.
He who turns away his ear from hearing the Torah, Even his prayer is an abomination.
“While you hated instruction And cast My Words behind you?
For dogs have surrounded Me; A crowd of evil ones have encircled Me, Piercing My hands and My feet;
And they say to Ě
“And now, send hastily and inform Dawiḏ
And Yehonathan, Sha’ul’s son, arose and went to Dawiḏ
“How long, you simple ones, Would you love simplicity, And shall scoffers delight in their scoffing, And fools hate knowledge?
The fear of יהוה is the beginning of knowledge; Fools despise wisdom and discipline.
All of us growl like bears, and moan sadly like doves. We look for right-ruling, but there is none; for deliverance, but it is far from us.
And right-ruling is driven back, and righteousness stands far off. For truth has fallen in the street, and right is unable to enter.