For strangers have risen up against me, And cruel men have sought after my life; They have not set Elohim before them. Selah.
O Elohim, the proud have risen against me, And a band of dreaded men have sought my life, And have not set You before them.
Transgression speaks to the wrong within his heart; Fear of Elohim is not before his eyes.
“And this they shall do to you because they did not know the Father, nor Me.
Have the workers of wickedness no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And do not call on Elohim?
Let those who seek to destroy my life Be ashamed and abashed altogether; Let those who are desiring my evil Be driven back and put to shame.
For dogs have surrounded Me; A crowd of evil ones have encircled Me, Piercing My hands and My feet;
I have set יהוה always before me; Because He is at my right hand I am not shaken.
I have become a stranger to my brothers, And a foreigner to my mother’s children;
He does send you help from the set-apart place, And does uphold you from Tsiyon!
Rule me rightly, O Elohim, And plead my cause against a nation without kindness. Oh, deliver me from a man of deceit and unrighteousness!