² Who plan evil things in their hearts;
^(A)They continually gather together for war.

² How long will you judge unjustly,
And ^(A)show partiality to the wicked? Selah

²² “How long, you ^[a]simple ones, will you love ^[b]simplicity?
For scorners delight in their scorning,
And fools hate knowledge.

¹² Those also who seek my life lay snares for me;
Those who seek my hurt speak of destruction,
And plan deception all the day long.

¹¹ For they intended evil against You;
They devised a plot which they are not able to ^(A)perform.

¹⁵ Though I disciplined and strengthened their arms,
Yet they devise evil against Me;

¹³ Therefore this iniquity shall be to you
^(A)Like a breach ready to fall,
A bulge in a high wall,
Whose breaking ^(B)comes suddenly, in an instant.
¹⁴ And ^(C)He shall break it like the breaking of the potter’s vessel,
Which is broken in pieces;
He shall not spare.
So there shall not be found among its fragments
^[a]A shard to take fire from the hearth,
Or to take water from the cistern.”