For no guilt of mine! They run and prepare themselves. Awake to help me, and see!
Stir up Yourself and awake to my right-ruling – To my cause, my Elohim and my Master.
“Their feet are swift to shed blood,
“Now, then, you, with the council, inform the commander to have him brought down to you tomorrow, as intending to examine more exactly all about him. And we are ready to kill him before he comes near.”
Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of wickedness, wasting and ruin are in their highways.
Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of יהוה! Awake as in days of old, everlasting generations. Was it not You who cut Rahaḇ
For their feet run to evil, And they hurry to shed blood.
Awake! Why do You sleep, O יהוה ? Arise! Do not reject us forever.
Let not my lying enemies rejoice over me; Or those who hate me without cause wink their eyes.
You destroy those speaking falsehood; יהוה loathes a man of blood and deceit.
“For truly I was stolen away from the land of the Heḇ
And Yehonathan spoke well of Dawiḏ
Because of wickedness, cast them out. Put down the peoples in displeasure, O Elohim!