The evil-doers have taken out their swords, their bows are bent; for crushing the poor, and to put to death those who are upright in their ways.

Let those whose cause the Lord has taken up say so, his people whom he has taken out of the hands of their haters;

And has taken us out of the hands of our haters: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

His silver, hath he not put out on interest, nor, a bribe against the innocent, hath he taken. He that doeth these things, shall not be shaken unto times age-abiding.

You have taken my friends away from me; You have made me a hateful thing to them. I am shut up, and I cannot go out.