⁴ To shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.

¹⁹ God, who is enthroned forever, Will hear, and answer them. Selah. They never change, Who don't fear God.

²² who did not sin, "neither was deceit found in his mouth."

²³ Who, when he was cursed, didn't curse back. When he suffered, didn't threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;

⁶ When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify!" Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him."

¹⁴ You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me, Gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret.

⁷ But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.

³ For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, Not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.

⁴ I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me!

² For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, That they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

⁸ He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.

⁹ He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.

¹¹ Our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, until we come into the midst of them, and kill them, and cause the work to cease.

¹⁴ David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for else none of us shall escape from Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring down evil on us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword.

¹⁰ Saul sought to strike David even to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he struck the spear into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.

¹¹ and Saul cast the spear; for he said, I will strike David even to the wall. David avoided out of his presence twice.