⁹ Raise the war cry,^[a](A) you nations, and be shattered!^(B)
    Listen, all you distant lands.
Prepare^(C) for battle, and be shattered!
    Prepare for battle, and be shattered!
¹⁰ Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted;^(D)
    propose your plan, but it will not stand,^(E)
    for God is with us.^[b](F)

“Let us destroy the tree and its fruit;
    let us cut him off from the land of the living,^(C)
    that his name be remembered^(D) no more.”

² Hide me from the conspiracy^(A) of the wicked,^(B)
    from the plots of evildoers.
³ They sharpen their tongues like swords^(C)
    and aim cruel words like deadly arrows.^(D)
4 They shoot from ambush at the innocent;^(E)
    they shoot suddenly, without fear.^(F)

⁵ They encourage each other in evil plans,
    they talk about hiding their snares;^(G)
    they say, “Who will see it^[a]?”^(H)
6 They plot injustice and say,
    “We have devised a perfect plan!”
    Surely the human mind and heart are cunning.

¹³ For I hear many whispering,^(A)
    “Terror on every side!”^(B)
They conspire against me^(C)
    and plot to take my life.^(D)