Psalms 34:3-15

³Bring forth a sword, and stop the way against them that persecute me: Say to my soul, I am thy salvation.

⁴Let them that seek my soul be ashamed and confounded: Let them that devise evils against me be turned back and put to shame.

⁵Let them be as dust before the wind, And an angel of the Lord afflicting them.

⁶Let their way be dark and slippery, And an angel of the Lord persecuting them.

⁷For without cause they have hidden for me their destructive snare: Without a cause they have reproached my soul.

⁸Let a snare which they know not come upon them; And the gin which they hid take them: And let them fall into the very same snare.

⁹But my soul shall exult in the Lord: It shall delight in his salvation.

¹⁰All my bones shall say, O Lord, who is like to thee? Delivering the poor out of the hand of them that are stronger than he, Yea, the poor and needy one from them that spoil him.

¹¹Unjust witnesses arose, and asked me of things I knew not.

¹²They rewarded me evil for good, And bereavement to my soul.

¹³But I, when they troubled me, put on sackcloth, And humbled my soul with fasting: And my prayer shall return to my own bosom.

¹⁴I behaved agreeably toward them as if it had been our neighbor or brother: I humbled myself as one mourning and sad of countenance.

¹⁵Yet they rejoiced against me, And plagues were plentifully brought against me, and I knew it not: They were scattered, but repented not.