² My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, For they are many who fight proudly against me.

¹ > Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.

²⁵ who by the mouth of your servant, David, said, 'Why do the nations rage, And the peoples plot a vain thing?

²⁶ The kings of the earth take a stand, And the rulers take council together, Against the Lord, and against his Christ{Christ (Greek) and Messiah (Hebrew) both mean Anointed One. (Compare Psalm 2)}.'

²⁷ For truly, in this city against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together

⁶ How shall I come before Yahweh, And bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, With calves a year old?

¹⁸ You king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty:

¹⁵ For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

¹⁰ All the nations surrounded me, But in the name of Yahweh, I cut them off.

¹¹ They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me. In the name of Yahweh I indeed cut them off.

¹² They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In the name of Yahweh I cut them off.

⁴ Above the voices of many waters, The mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.

⁸ But you, Yahweh, are on high forevermore.

¹ > It is a good thing to give thanks to Yahweh, To sing praises to your name, Most High;

¹ He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

³ He will send from heaven, and save me, He rebukes the one who is pursuing me. Selah. God will send out his loving kindness and his truth.

⁵ He will repay the evil to my enemies. Destroy them in your truth.

¹ > Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.

² I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

¹⁴ for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go forth to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty.