They say, "Let's tear off the shackles they've put on us! Let's free ourselves from their ropes!"

So that my enemy will not tear me like a lion,
Dragging me away while there is no one to rescue [me].

Out of the mouth of children and sucklings, hast thou laid a foundation of strength, - because of thine adversaries, to make foe and avenger be still.

When I see and consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have established,

He says to himself, “God has [quite] forgotten;
He has hidden His face; He will never see my deed.”

He rescued me from my foe, in his might, and from them who hated me, because they were too strong for me:

O my God, in thee, have I put my trust, Let me not be put to shame, Let not my foe exult over me:

One thing, have I asked of Yahweh, That, will I seek to secure, - That I may dwell in the house of Yahweh, all the days of my life, To view the delightfulness of Yahweh, And to contemplate in his temple.

And hast not shut me up in the hand of the foe, Thou hast given standing, in a roomy place, unto my feet.

Let destruction come upon my enemy by surprise;
Let the net he hid for me catch him;
Into that very destruction let him fall.

They are ready to devour me; they say, "Aha! Aha! We've got you!"

You make us retreat from the foe,
and those who hate us
have taken plunder for themselves.

At the voice of him who reproacheth and revileth, At the face of the foe and avenger.

Come! view the doings of Yahweh, - Who hath set desolations in the earth;

Now it is not an enemy who insults me—
otherwise I could bear it;
it is not a foe who rises up against me—
otherwise I could hide from him.

Give us aid against the foe,
for human help is worthless.

For thou hast been, A Refuge to me, A Tower of Strength, from the face of the foe.

Hear, O God, my voice when I complain, From dread peril by the foe, wilt thou guard my life.

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm and Song of David.} Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto thee shall the vow be performed.

That your foot may crush them in blood,
That the tongue of your dogs may have its share from your enemies.”

Turn your footsteps [quickly] toward the perpetual ruins;
The enemy has damaged everything within the sanctuary.

God, how long will the enemy mock?
Will the foe insult Your name forever?

Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.

They did not remember His power shown
on the day He redeemed them from the foe,

And gave up His strength and power (the ark of the covenant) into captivity,
And His glory into the hand of the enemy (the Philistines).

Who said - Let us take a possession foe ourselves, The pastures of God!

For great is your gracious love to me; you've delivered me from the depths of Sheol.

No foe shall make exactions on him, Nor shall, a son of perversity, humiliate him;

Lord, you've been our refuge from generation to generation.

For in Your sight a thousand years
are like yesterday that passes by,
like a few hours of the night.

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High
Will remain secure and rest in the shadow of the Almighty [whose power no enemy can withstand].

You've grown my strength like the horn of a wild ox; I was anointed with fresh oil.

So I made a vow in my anger, 'They will never enter into the resting place I had set aside for them.'"

When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.

And saved them from the hand of one full of hatred, And redeemed them out of the hand of the foe;

So he made a solemn vow that he would make them die in the desert,

May Yahweh, the God of Israel, be praised
from everlasting to everlasting.
Let all the people say, “Amen!”
Hallelujah!

Let the redeemed of the Lord proclaim
that He has redeemed them from the hand of the foe

And he blesses them and they multiply greatly, and he does not let their cattle become few.

When they become few and they are bent down from [the] oppression of calamity and grief,

Give us aid against the foe,
for human help is worthless.

Let his days be few; and let another take his office.

Costly {in Yahweh's view} [is] the death of his faithful [ones].

VAU. Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy word.

How few are the days of thy servant! When wilt thou execute sentence on my persecutors?

Show us favor, Lord, show us favor,
for we’ve had more than enough contempt.

We’ve had more than enough
scorn from the arrogant
and contempt from the proud.

and how he swore an oath to the Lord,
making a vow to the Mighty One of Jacob:

Flash Your lightning and scatter the foe;
shoot Your arrows and rout them.