Keep thou me from the snare which they ordained to me; and from the traps of them that work wickedness.
Sinners setted a snare to me; and I erred not from thy commandments.
proud men hid a snare to me. And they laid forth cords into a snare; they setted a trap to me beside the way.
While my spirit faileth of me; and thou hast known my paths. In this way in which I went; proud men hid a snare to me.
I beheld to the right side, and I saw; and none there was that knew me. Flight perished from me; and none there is that seeketh to help my soul.
and they did violence, that sought my life. And they that sought evils to me, spake vanities; and thought guiles [or treacheries] all day.
God, mine heart is ready, mine heart is ready; I shall sing, and I shall say psalm.
For they sharpened their tongues as a sword, they bend their bow, a bitter thing;
The law of a wise man is a well of life; that he bow away from the falling of death, that is, of sin, and of hell.
Cry be heard of the houses of them, for thou shalt bring suddenly a thief on them; for they digged a pit to take me, and hid snares to my feet.
And they espied, and sent spies, that feigned them[selves] just, that they should take him in word, and betake him to the power of the prince, and to the power of the justice.