³ I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.

⁷ And Shimei said, with curses, Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, you good-for-nothing:

⁸ The Lord has sent punishment on you for all the blood of the family of Saul, whose kingdom you have taken; and the Lord has given the kingdom to Absalom, your son: now you yourself are taken in your evil, because you are a man of blood.

⁵⁹ Now the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin were looking for false witness against Jesus, so that they might put him to death;

³⁴ In a man's crushing under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

³⁵ In his turning away the right of a man before the face of the Most High.

³⁶ In his doing wrong to a man in his cause, the Lord has no pleasure.

⁸ Their thoughts are deep with evil designs; their talk from their seats of power is of cruel acts.

¹¹ Saying, God has given him up; go after him and take him, for he has no helper.

³ For men who are going after me have come out against me, violent men are purposing to take my soul; they have not put God before their eyes. (Selah.)

¹¹ False witnesses got up: they put questions to me about crimes of which I had no knowledge.

¹² Do not give me into their hands, because false witnesses have come out against me, and men breathing destruction.

⁹ From the evil-doers who are violent to me, and from those who are round me, desiring my death.

⁵ Because of the crushing of the poor and the weeping of those in need, now will I come to his help, says the Lord; I will give him the salvation which he is desiring.

¹⁹ And said to him, Let me not be judged as a sinner in your eyes, O my lord, and do not keep in mind the wrong I did on the day when my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, or take it to heart.

³ And Absalom would say to him, See, your cause is true and right; but no man has been named by the king to give you a hearing.