For without cause they hid their net for me; without cause they dug a pit for my life.
But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: ‘They hated me without a cause.’
The arrogant have hidden a trap for me, and with cords they have spread a net; beside the way they have set snares for me. Selah
The nations have sunk in the pit that they made; in the net that they hid, their own foot has been caught.
More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies. What I did not steal must I now restore?
Indeed, none who wait for you shall be put to shame; they shall be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous.
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on its mesh.
The insolent have dug pitfalls for me; they do not live according to your law.
O Lord my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands, if I have repaid my friend with evil or plundered my enemy without cause, let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it, and let him trample my life to the ground and lay my glory in the dust. Selah
shooting from ambush at the blameless, shooting at him suddenly and without fear.
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