1A David psalm God, get me out of here, away from this evil; protect me from these vicious people.
2All they do is think up new ways to be bad; they spend their days plotting war games.
3They practice the sharp rhetoric of hate and hurt, speak venomous words that maim and kill.
4God, keep me out of the clutch of these wicked ones, protect me from these vicious people;
5Stuffed with self-importance, they plot ways to trip me up, determined to bring me down. These crooks invent traps to catch me and do their best to incriminate me.
6I prayed, "God, you're my God! Listen, God! Mercy!
7God, my Lord, Strong Savior, protect me when the fighting breaks out!
8Don't let the wicked have their way, God, don't give them an inch!"
9These troublemakers all around me— let them drown in their own verbal poison.
10Let God pile hellfire on them, let him bury them alive in crevasses!
11These loudmouths— don't let them be taken seriously; These savages— let the Devil hunt them down!
12I know that you, God, are on the side of victims, that you care for the rights of the poor.
13And I know that the righteous personally thank you, that good people are secure in your presence.