⁸ Yahweh, don't grant the desires of the wicked. Don't let their evil plans succeed, or they will become proud. Selah.

²⁷ Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, Lest they should say, Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.

³¹ One told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. David said, Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.

¹² He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise.

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

² In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak; They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

³ For the wicked boasts of his heart's cravings, He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh.

¹² Don't deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, For false witnesses have risen up against me, Such as breathe out cruelty.

²⁰ Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, Which brings about mischief by statute?

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