Psalms 59:2-17

²Rescue me from men who want to do what is wicked, men who are murderers!

³Look! They are waiting to kill me! Fierce men have gathered to assault me. Yahweh, they are doing that even though I have not done what is wrong!

⁴It is not because I have committed any sin against them that they run and get ready to attack me.

⁵Yahweh my God, commander of the armies of heaven, the one we Israelis worship, arise and punish the ungodly/heathen people of all the nations; do not be merciful to those wicked people who have ◄acted treacherously toward/secretly planned to harm► us.

⁶They return each evening, snarling like vicious dogs SIM as they prowl around this city.

⁷They loudly say terrible things; they say MTY many things that injure people like MET swords do, but they think, “No one will RHQ hear us!”

⁸But Yahweh, you laugh at them. You ◄scoff at/ridicule► the people of the pagan nations.

⁹God, I have confidence in you because you are very strong; you are my refuge.

¹⁰Because you love me, you will come to save me; you will allow me to watch while you defeat my enemies.

¹¹But do not kill them immediately in order that my people will not forget how you punished them! Instead, Lord, you who are like a shield that protects us MET, scatter them by your power, and then defeat them.

¹²Because what they say MTY is sinful, allow them to be trapped for being proud. Because they are always cursing and telling lies,

¹³because you are angry, get rid of them; destroy them completely in order that people will know that you rule over us, your Israeli people, and that you rule over all the earth.

¹⁴My enemies return each evening, snarling like vicious dogs as they prowl around this city.

¹⁵They roam around, searching for food; and if they do not find enough, they growl.

¹⁶But as for me, I will sing about your power; every morning I will sing joyfully about your faithfully loving us. I will sing about how you protected me when I was very distressed.

¹⁷God, you are the one who enables me to be strong; you are my refuge; you faithfully love me.