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.

¹¹ Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don't know about.

¹ But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,

¹¹ Then they secretly induced men to say, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God."

¹² They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against him and seized him, and brought him in to the council,

¹³ and set up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

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

⁶⁰ and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward,

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

¹¹ By this I know that you delight in me, Because my enemy doesn't triumph over me.

² Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive, He shall be blessed on the earth, And he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.

¹⁶ For I said, "Don't let them gloat over me, Or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips."

²⁵ Don't let them say in their heart, "Aha! That's the way we want it!" Don't let them say, "We have swallowed him up!"

⁸ You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.

⁷ Thus said Shimei when he cursed, Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and base fellow:

⁸ Yahweh has returned on you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned; and Yahweh has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son; and, behold, you are [taken] in your own mischief, because you are a man of blood.

¹⁹ Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it be Yahweh that has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering: but if it be the children of men, cursed be they before Yahweh: for they have driven me out this day that I shouldn't cling to Yahweh's inheritance, 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 He inquired of Yahweh for him, and gave him food, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.

¹¹ Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

¹⁹ Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.

¹⁶ "You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.