4 vLet them be put to shame and dishonor
who seek after my life!
Let them be turned back and disappointed
who devise evil against me!
5 Let them be like chaff before the wind,
with the angel of the Lord driving them away!
6 Let their way be dark and slippery,
with the angel of the Lord pursuing them!
7 For without cause they hid their net for me;
without cause they wdug a pit for my life.1
8 Let destruction come upon him when he does not know it!
And let the xnet that he hid ensnare him;
let him fall into it—to his destruction!
22 kLet their own table before them become a snare;
and when they are at peace, let it become a trap.1
23 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see,
and make their loins tremble continually.
24 lPour out your indignation upon them,
and let your burning anger overtake them.
25 mMay their camp be a desolation;
let no one dwell in their tents.
26 For they persecute him whom you have struck down,
and they recount the pain of those you have wounded.
27 Add to them punishment upon punishment;
may they have no acquittal from you.2
28 Let them be nblotted out of the obook of the living;
let them not be enrolled among the righteous.
6 Appoint a wicked man against him;
let an accuser stand xat his right hand.
7 When he is tried, let him come forth guilty;
let his yprayer be counted as sin!
8 May his days be few;
zmay another take his office!
9 aMay his children be fatherless
and his wife a widow!
10 May his children bwander about and beg,
seeking food far from the ruins they inhabit!
11 May the creditor seize all that he has;
may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil!
12 Let there be none to extend kindness to him,
nor any to pity his fatherless children!
13 May his posterity be cut off;
may his name be blotted out in the second generation!
14 cMay the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord,
and let not the sin of his mother be dblotted out!
15 Let them be before the Lord continually,
that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth!
