May the proud be put to shame for wronging me with a lie, but I will meditate on Your precepts.
But his delight is in the Torah of Adonai, and on His Torah he meditates day and night.
with hateful words surrounded me, and fought against me without cause.
I will meditate on Your precepts, and regard Your ways.
You rebuke the proud, who are cursed, who wander from Your mitzvot.
Though princes sit and talk against me, Your servant meditates on Your decrees.
The arrogant have viciously ridiculed me, yet I did not turn away from Your Torah.
Surely no one who waits for You will be ashamed. But the treacherous without cause will be ashamed.
May they be ashamed and humiliated, those who rejoice over my misery. May they who exalt themselves over me be clothed with shame and disgrace.
For without cause they hid their net for me, and without cause they dug a pit for my soul.
I am worn out by my crying, my throat is parched, my eyes fail, waiting for my God.
The arrogant will stumble and fall, and no one will lift him up. I will kindle fire in his cities, and it will devour all who are round about him.”
So is fulfilled the word written in their Scripture, ‘They hated Me for no reason.’
For what credit is there if, when you sin and get a beating, you endure? But if you endure when you do good and suffer for it, this finds favor with God.
Then he said to David, “You are more righteous than I, for you have done good to me, while I have done evil to you.
then added, “Yet why is my lord pursuing his servant? What have I done? What evil is in my hand?