Keep me from the jaws of the trap they have laid for me, and from the snares of the evildoers.
The wicked have set a snare for me, yet I did not stray from Your precepts.
Keep me safe, Adonai, from the clutches of the wicked. Protect me from the man of violence who planned to push me off my feet.
I pour out my complaint before Him, before Him I tell my trouble.
When my spirit grows faint within me, You know my path. In the way where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.
My friends and my companions stay away from my wound, and my kinsmen stand far off.
They spread a net for my steps, my soul is bowed down. They have dug a pit before me— they fell into it themselves. Selah
Hide me from the conspiracy of evildoers, from the tumult of workers of iniquity,
Wise instruction is a fountain of life, turning one away from snares of death.
Let a cry be heard from their houses when suddenly You bring a troop on them. For they dug a pit to capture me, and hid snares for my feet.
Now they watched Him and sent spies who pretended to be righteous, in order to trap Him in His words so they could hand Him over to the power and authority of the governor.