Psalms 59:4-13

⁴Without any offence of mine, they run and prepare themselves; Awake to help me, and behold!

⁵Do thou, O Jehovah, God of hosts, God of Israel, Awake to punish all the nations! Show no mercy to any wicked transgressors! Pause.

⁶Let them return at evening, Let them howl like dogs, And go round about the city!

⁷Behold! with their mouths they belch out malice; Swords are upon their lips; “For who,” say they, “will hear?”

⁸Yet thou, O LORD! wilt laugh at them; Thou wilt hold all the nations in derision!

⁹O my Strength! to thee will I look! For God is my defence;

¹⁰My God will come to meet me with his mercy; God will cause me to look with joy upon my enemies.

¹¹Slay them not, lest my people forget; Scatter them by thy power, and cast them down, O Lord, our shield!

¹²The word of their lips is the sin of their mouth; Let them be overtaken in their pride, For the curses and the falsehood which they utter!

¹³Consume them in thy wrath; consume them that they be no more, That they may know that God ruleth in Jacob, Even to the ends of the earth! Pause.