All mine enemies shall be confounded and sore vexed; they shall be turned back and put to shame suddenly.

While mine enemies are driven back, they fall and perish at thy presence.

Let them be confounded, and put to shame, that seek after my soul; let them be turned back and brought to confusion, that imagine mischief for me.

Then said I, "Lo, I come. In the beginning of the book it is written of me,

Our heart is not turned back, neither our steps gone out of thy way,

Thou tellest my flittings, thou puttest my tears in thy bottle, and numberest them. Are not these things noted in thy book?

{To the chanter, upon the rose of witness, Michtam of David, for to teach: when he fought against Mesopotamia, and Syria of Zoba: and when Joab turned back, and slew twelve thousand Edomites in the valley of Salt} O God, thou hast cast us out and scattered us abroad; thou that hast been so sore displeased at us, comfort us again.

Let them be wiped out of the book of the living, and not be written among the righteous.

Like as the children of Ephraim, which being harnessed and carrying bows, turned themselves back in the time of battle:

They turned back, and tempted God, and moved the holy one in Israel.

And so will not we go back from thee; O let us live, and we shall call upon thy name.

Let his children be vagabonds, and beg their bread; let them seek it also out of desolate places.

The sea saw that, and fled, Jordan turned back.

What aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? And thou Jordan, that thou turnest back?

As for such as turn back unto their own wickedness, the LORD shall lead them forth with the evil doers; but peace shall be upon Israel.

The plowers plowed upon my back, and made long furrows.

All them that have an evil will to Zion shall be confounded, and made to turn back from it.

Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being imperfect; and in thy book were all my members written, which day by day were fashioned, when as yet there was not one of them.