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.

¹¹ Unrighteous witnesses rise up; They ask me of things that I know not.

¹ But Saul, yet breathing threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,

¹¹ Then they suborned men, who said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and `against' God.

¹² And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and seized him, and brought him into the council,

¹³ and set up false witnesses, who said, This man ceaseth not to speak words against this holy place, and the law:

⁵⁹ Now the chief priests and the whole council sought false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death;

⁶⁰ and they found it not, though many false witnesses came. But afterward came two,

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

¹¹ By this I know that thou delightest in me, Because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.

² Jehovah will preserve him, and keep him alive, And he shall be blessed upon the earth; And deliver not thou him unto the will of his enemies.

¹⁶ For I said, Lest they rejoice over me: When my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.

²⁵ Let them not say in their heart, Aha, so would we have it: Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

⁸ And thou hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; Thou hast set my feet in a large place.

⁷ And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Begone, begone, thou man of blood, and base fellow:

⁸ Jehovah hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and Jehovah hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son; and, behold, thou art `taken' in thine own mischief, because thou art a man of blood.

¹⁹ Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it be Jehovah that hath stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if it be the children of men, cursed be they before Jehovah: for they have driven me out this day that I should not cleave unto the inheritance of Jehovah, saying, Go, serve other gods.

⁹ Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.

¹⁰ And he inquired of Jehovah for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.

¹¹ And punishing them oftentimes in all the synagogues, I strove to make them blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto foreign cities.

¹⁹ Consider mine enemies, for they are many; And they hate me with cruel hatred.

¹⁶ Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.