6Let their way be dark and slippery, *
and let the angel of the Lord pursue them.
7For they have secretly spread a net for me without a cause; *
without a cause they have dug a pit to take me alive.
8Let ruin come upon them unawares; *
let them be caught in the net they hid;
let them fall into the pit they dug.
9Then I will be joyful in the Lord; *
I will glory in his victory.
10My very bones will say, “Lord, who is like you? *
You deliver the poor from those who are too strong for them,
the poor and needy from those who rob them.”
11Malicious witnesses rise up against me; *
they charge me with matters I know nothing about.
12They pay me evil in exchange for good; *
my soul is full of despair.
13But when they were sick I dressed in sack‑cloth *
and humbled myself by fasting;
14I prayed with my whole heart,
as one would for a friend or a brother; *
I behaved like one who mourns for his mother,
bowed down and grieving.
15But when I stumbled, they were glad and gathered together;
they gathered against me; *
strangers whom I did not know tore me to pieces and would not stop.
16They put me to the test and mocked me; *
they gnashed at me with their teeth.
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