PSALMS 140

1 To victory, the psalm of David. Lord, deliver thou me from an evil man; deliver thou me from a wicked man. 2 Which thought wickednesses in the heart; all day they ordained battles. 3 They sharpened their tongues as serpents; the venom of snakes is under the lips of them. 4 Lord, keep thou me from the hand of the sinner; and deliver thou me from wicked men. Which thought to deceive my goings; 5 proud men hid a snare to me. And they laid forth cords into a snare; they setted a trap to me beside the way. 6 I said to the Lord, Thou art my God; Lord, hear thou the voice of my beseeching. 7 Lord, Lord, the virtue of mine health; thou madest a shadow on mine head in the day of battle. 8 Lord, betake thou not me from my desire to the sinner; they thought against me, forsake thou not me, lest peradventure they be enhanced. 9 The head of the compass of them; the travail of their lips shall cover them. 10 Coals shall fall on them, thou shalt cast them down into fire; into wretchednesses where they shall not be able to stand. 11 A man that is a great jangler shall not be dressed [or rightforth ruled] in earth; evils shall take an unjust man into perishing. 12 I have known, that the Lord shall make doom of a needy man; and the vengeance of poor men. 13 Nevertheless just [or rightwise] men shall acknowledge to thy name; and rightful [or right] men shall dwell with thy cheer.