See my enemies, how many they are— they hate me with violent hatred.
He will send from heaven and save me. He rebukes the one trampling on me. Selah God is sending His mercy and His truth.
Be gracious to me, O God! For man has crushed me, fighting all day he oppresses me.
when Doeg the Edomite came and reported to Saul telling him, “David went to Ahimelech’s house.”
So I confess my guilt. I am troubled because of my sin.
But they kept insisting, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, starting from the Galilee to as far as here.”
The ruling kohanim and Torah scholars were searching for a way to do away with Yeshua, for they were afraid of the people.
For an enemy pursues my soul. He crushes my life down to the ground. He makes me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.
Let burning coals fall upon them. May they be cast into the fire, into deep pits, never to rise again.
They sharpen their tongue like a serpent’s —viper’s venom is under their lips. Selah
For the music director: a psalm of David.
Though I walk amid trouble, You revive me. You stretch out Your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and Your right hand delivers me.
God, the proud have risen up against me and a gang of ruthless people have sought my life, and have not set You before them.
Do not turn me over to the desire of my foes. For false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence.
When evildoers approached me to devour my flesh —my adversaries and my foes— they stumbled and fell.
God—He gives me vengeance and subdues peoples under me.
Adonai examines the righteous. But the wicked and one loving violence His soul hates.
Then David said to Abishai and to all his officials, “Look, my son who came from my own body is seeking my life—how much more this Benjamite? Leave him alone and let him curse, since Adonai has told him.
My lively enemies are numerous. Many hate me wrongfully.