Though they intended evil against You and devised a plot, they cannot succeed.
Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, When thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
For You will make them turn their backs; You will aim Your bow [of divine justice] at their faces.
For thou wilt make them turn their back; Thou wilt make ready with thy bowstrings against their face.
Because you will make them turn and run when you aim your bow straight at their faces!
Do not depart from me. For tribulation is near, since there is no one who may help me.
depart not from me. For tribulation is very near: for there is none to help me.
Have I sinned— what have I done to You, O watcher of men? Why have You set me as Your target? Have I become a burden to You?
Adonai also thundered in the heavens, and Elyon gave forth His voice, hail and fiery coals.
For You girded me with strength for battle. You made those who rose up against me bow down before me.
Yet You have spurned and humiliated us, and no longer go out with our armies.
You have recorded my wanderings. You put my tears in Your bottle. Are they not in Your book?
They are plotting injustices: “We have completed a perfect plot!” A man’s inward part and heart are deep.
I will be glad and rejoice in You. I will sing praise to Your Name, Elyon!
Take counsel together, but it will amount to nothing. Speak a word, but it will not stand. For God is with us!
He bent His bow and made me the target for His arrow.