For, by thee, I ran through a troop, and, by my God, I leapt over a wall.

Because of the noise of the enemy, By reason of the oppression of the lawless one, For they would let trouble drop upon me, And, in anger, would they entrap me.

Thou hast set a crown upon thy year of bounty, And, thy tracks, drop fatness;

Remember thine own assembly thou didst acquire aforetime, Thou didst redeem the tribe of thine own inheritance, Mount Zion, wherein thou didst take up thy habitation.

Howbeit he rejected the tent of Joseph, And, the tribe of Ephraim, did not choose:

But made choice of the tribe of Judah, The mountain of Zion, which he loved;

Keep me out of the clutches of the trap they have set for me, and the snares of the workers of iniquity.