Psalms

¹ God, get me out of here, away from this evil; protect me from these vicious people.

² they spend their days plotting war games.

³ speak venomous words that maim and kill.

⁴ protect me from these vicious people;

⁵ determined to bring me down. These crooks invent traps to catch me and do their best to incriminate me.

⁶ Listen, God! Mercy!

⁷ protect me when the fighting breaks out!

⁸ don't give them an inch!"

⁹ let them drown in their own verbal poison.

¹⁰ let him bury them alive in crevasses!

¹¹ don't let them be taken seriously; These savages— let the Devil hunt them down!

¹² that you care for the rights of the poor.

¹³ that good people are secure in your presence.