PSALM 140 (NIV)
For the director of musci. A psalm of David.
For the director of musci. A psalm of David.
- Rescue me, O Lord, from evil men; protect me from men of violence,
- who devise evil plans in their hearts and stir up war every day.
- They make their tongues as sharp as a serpent's; the poison of vipers is on their lips. Selah
- Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked; protect me from men of violence who plant to trip my feet.
- 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
- O Lord, I say to you, "You are my God." Hear, O Lord, my cry for mercy.
- O Sovereign Lord, my strong deliverer, who shields my head in the day of battle -
- do not grant the wicked their desires, O Lord; do not let their plans succeed, or they will become proud. Selah
- Let the heads of those who surround me be covered with the trouble their lips have caused.
- Let burning coals fall upon them; may they be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, never to rise.
- Let slanderers not be established in the land; may disaster hunt down men of violence.
- I know that the Lord secures justice for the poor and upholds the cause of the needy.
- Surely the righteous will praise your name and the upright will live before you.
