Psalms 140:1-9

¹To victory, the psalm of David. Lord, deliver thou me from an evil man; deliver thou me from a wicked man.

²Which thought wickednesses in the heart; all day they ordained battles.

³They sharpened their tongues as serpents; the venom of snakes is under the lips of them.

⁴Lord, keep thou me from the hand of the sinner; and deliver thou me from wicked men. Which thought to deceive my goings;

⁵proud men hid a snare to me. And they laid forth cords into a snare; they setted a trap to me beside the way.

⁶I said to the Lord, Thou art my God; Lord, hear thou the voice of my beseeching.

⁷Lord, Lord, the virtue of mine health; thou madest a shadow on mine head in the day of battle.

⁸Lord, betake thou not me from my desire to the sinner; they thought against me, forsake thou not me, lest peradventure they be enhanced.

⁹The head of the compass of them; the travail of their lips shall cover them.