⁸ Do not grant, O Lord, the desires of the wicked;
Do not further his wicked scheme,
^(A)Lest they be exalted. Selah

² The wicked in his pride ^[a]persecutes the poor;
^(A)Let them be caught in the plots which they have devised.

¹² Do not deliver me to the will of my adversaries;
For ^(A)false witnesses have risen against me,
And such as breathe out violence.

^12 (A)He frustrates the devices of the crafty,
So that their hands cannot carry out their plans.
¹³ He catches the ^(B)wise in their own craftiness,
And the counsel of the cunning comes quickly upon them.

²⁷ Had I not feared the wrath of the enemy,
Lest their adversaries should misunderstand,
Lest they should say, ^(A)“Our hand is high;
And it is not the Lord who has done all this.” ’