Psalms 58:1-8

¹For the end. Destroy not: by David for a memorial, when Saul sent, and watched his house to kill him.

²Deliver me from mine enemies, O God; and ransom me from those that rise up against me.

³Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.

⁴For, behold, they have hunted after my soul; violent men have set upon me: neither is it my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord.

⁵Without iniquity I ran and directed my course aright: awake to help me, and behold.

⁶And thou, Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, draw nigh to visit all the heathen; pity not any that work iniquity. Pause.

⁷They shall return at evening, and hunger like a dog, and go round about the city.

⁸Behold, they shall utter a voice with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips; for who, say they, has heard?