“And I shall beat down His adversaries before his face, And plague those who hate him.
“And I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you, and have made you a great name, like the name of the great ones who are on the earth.
“He who hates Me hates My Father as well.
“I put shame on his enemies, While on Him His diadem shall shine.”
And You have made my enemies turn their backs, As for those hating me, I cut them off.
And it came to be when the sovereign was dwelling in his house, and יהוה had given him rest from all his enemies all around,
And the fighting between the house of Sha’ul and the house of Dawiḏ
‘But those enemies of mine who did not wish me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them before me.’ ”
“But his subjects were hating him, and sent a delegation after him, to say, ‘We do not wish this one to reign over us.’
They have surrounded me with words of hatred, And they attack me without a cause.