Because of the voice of a reproacher and reviler, Because of an enemy and a self-avenger.
If I have done wickedly -- wo to me, And righteously -- I lift not up my head, Full of shame -- then see my affliction,
Till when, O God, doth an adversary reproach? Doth an enemy despise thy name for ever?
Remember this -- an enemy reproached Jehovah, And a foolish people have despised Thy name.
And turn Thou back to our neighbours, Sevenfold unto their bosom, their reproach, Wherewith they reproached Thee, O Lord.
From the mouths of infants and sucklings Thou hast founded strength, Because of Thine adversaries, To still an enemy and a self-avenger.
Incline, O Jehovah, Thine ear, and hear; open, O Jehovah, Thine eyes and see; and hear Thou all the words of Sennacherib that he hath sent to reproach the living God.