My deliverer from mine enemies, Above my withstanders Thou raisest me, From a man of violence dost deliver me.

Return doth his perverseness on his head, And on his crown his violence cometh down.

Jehovah the righteous doth try. And the wicked and the lover of violence, Hath His soul hated,

Give me not to the will of my adversaries, For risen against me have false witnesses, And they breathe out violence to me.

From fraud and from violence he redeemeth their soul, And precious is their blood in his eyes.

Therefore hath pride encircled them, Violence covereth them as a dress.

Look attentively to the covenant, For the dark places of earth, Have been full of habitations of violence.

Swallow up, O Lord, divide their tongue, For I saw violence and strife in a city.

Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.

To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. Deliver me, O Jehovah, from an evil man, From one of violence Thou keepest me.

Preserve me, Jehovah, from the hands of the wicked, From one of violence Thou keepest me, Who have devised to overthrow my steps.

A talkative man is not established in the earth, One of violence -- evil hunteth to overflowing.