¹⁸ Let my persecutors be put to shame,
    but keep me from shame;
let them be terrified,
    but keep me from terror.
Bring on them the day of disaster;
    destroy them with double destruction.^(A)

³ Though you probe my heart,^(A)
    though you examine me at night and test me,^(B)
you will find that I have planned no evil;^(C)
    my mouth has not transgressed.^(D)

²⁷ Kill all her young bulls;^(A)
    let them go down to the slaughter!^(B)
Woe to them! For their day^(C) has come,
    the time^(D) for them to be punished.

²³ Search me,^(A) God, and know my heart;^(B)
    test me and know my anxious thoughts.

²¹ would not God have discovered it,
    since he knows the secrets of the heart?^(A)
22 Yet for your sake we face death all day long;
    we are considered as sheep^(B) to be slaughtered.^(C)