¹² Those who seek my life ^(A)lay their snares;
    those who seek my hurt ^(B)speak of ruin
    and meditate ^(C)treachery all day long.

¹³ But I am like a deaf man; I do not hear,
    like ^(D)a mute man who does not open his mouth.
¹⁴ I have become like a man who does not hear,
    and in whose mouth are no ^(E)rebukes.

⁷ He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
    ^(A)yet he opened not his mouth;
^(B)like a ^(C)lamb that is led to the slaughter,
    and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
    so he opened not his mouth.