Concerning what people do:
by the word of Your lips
I have avoided the ways of the violent.

He frees me from my enemies.
You exalt me above my adversaries;
You rescue me from violent men.

I have seen a wicked, violent man
well-rooted like a flourishing native tree.

For strangers rise up against me,
and violent men seek my life.
They have no regard for God.Selah

who turned the rock into a pool of water,
the flint into a spring of water.

For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.Rescue me, Lord, from evil men.
Keep me safe from violent men

Protect me, Lord,
from the clutches of the wicked.
Keep me safe from violent men
who plan to make me stumble.

Do not let a slanderer stay in the land.
Let evil relentlessly hunt down a violent man.