⁷ Their feet rush into sin;
    they are swift to shed innocent blood.^(A)
They pursue evil schemes;^(B)
    acts of violence mark their ways.^(C)
8 The way of peace they do not know;^(D)
    there is no justice in their paths.
They have turned them into crooked roads;^(E)
    no one who walks along them will know peace.^(F)

² for people who are wicked and deceitful^(A)
    have opened their mouths against me;
    they have spoken against me with lying tongues.^(B)
3 With words of hatred^(C) they surround me;
    they attack me without cause.^(D)
4 In return for my friendship they accuse me,
    but I am a man of prayer.^(E)