Psalms - Chapter 140 | New International Version

  • 1. {For the director of music. A psalm of David.} Rescue me, O LORD, from evil men; protect me from men of violence,
  • 2. who devise evil plans in their hearts and stir up war every day.
  • 3. They make their tongues as sharp as a serpent's; the poison of vipers is on their lips. Selah
  • 4. Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; protect me from men of violence who plan to trip my feet.
  • 5. Proud men have hidden a snare for me; they have spread out the cords of their net and have set traps for me along my path. Selah
  • 6. O LORD, I say to you, "You are my God." Hear, O LORD, my cry for mercy.
  • 7. O Sovereign LORD, my strong deliverer, who shields my head in the day of battle--
  • 8. do not grant the wicked their desires, O LORD; do not let their plans succeed, or they will become proud. Selah
  • 9. Let the heads of those who surround me be covered with the trouble their lips have caused.
  • 10. Let burning coals fall upon them; may they be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, never to rise.
  • 11. Let slanderers not be established in the land; may disaster hunt down men of violence.
  • 12. I know that the LORD secures justice for the poor and upholds the cause of the needy.
  • 13. Surely the righteous will praise your name and the upright will live before you.
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