² The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

¹² For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.

¹¹ Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.

¹⁶ His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.

²² His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

¹²² Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.

¹⁸ Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

¹² Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.

¹³ For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:

⁵ The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

⁸⁵ The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.