⁸ Grant not, O Jehovah, the desires of the wicked; Further not his evil device, `lest' they exalt themselves. Selah

²⁷ Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should judge amiss, Lest they should say, Our hand is exalted, And Jehovah hath not done all this.

³¹ And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O Jehovah, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.

¹² He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

¹³ He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; And the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

² In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.

³ For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, And the covetous renounceth, `yea', contemneth Jehovah.

¹² Deliver me not over unto the will of mine adversaries: For false witnesses are risen up against me, And such as breathe out cruelty.

²⁰ Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with thee, Which frameth mischief by statute?

²¹ They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, And condemn the innocent blood.