⁴ My heart is in anguish within me;
    ^(F)the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
⁵ Fear and trembling come upon me,
    and ^(G)horror ^(H)overwhelms me.
⁶ And I say, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove!
    I would fly away and be at rest;
^7 (I)yes, I would wander far away;
    I would lodge in the wilderness; Selah
⁸ I would hurry to find a shelter
    from ^(J)the raging wind and tempest.”

⁹ Destroy, O Lord, ^(K)divide their tongues;
    for I see ^(L)violence and strife in the city.
¹⁰ Day and night they go around it
    on its walls,
and ^(M)iniquity and trouble are within it;
¹¹     ruin is in its midst;
^(N)oppression and fraud
    do not depart from its marketplace.

¹² For it is not an enemy who taunts me—
    then I could bear it;
it is not an adversary who ^(O)deals insolently with me—
    then I could hide from him.
^13 (P)But it is you, a man, my equal,
    my companion, my familiar friend.
¹⁴ We used to take sweet counsel together;
    within God's house we walked in ^(Q)the throng.
¹⁵ Let death steal over them;
    let them go down to Sheol ^(R)alive;
    for evil is in their dwelling place and in their heart.

¹⁶ But I call to God,
    and the Lord will save me.
^17 (S)Evening and ^(T)morning and at ^(U)noon
    I ^(V)utter my complaint and moan,
    and he hears my voice.
¹⁸ He redeems my soul in safety
    from the battle that I wage,
    for ^(W)many are arrayed against me.
¹⁹ God will give ear and humble them,
    he who is ^(X)enthroned from of old, Selah
because they do not ^(Y)change
    and do not fear God.

²⁰ My companion^{[b] (Z)}stretched out his hand against his friends;
    he violated his covenant.
²¹ His ^(AA)speech was ^(AB)smooth as butter,
    yet war was in his heart;
his words were softer than oil,
    yet they were ^(AC)drawn swords.

^22 (AD)Cast your burden on the Lord,
    and he will sustain you;
^(AE)he will never permit
    the righteous to be moved.

²³ But you, O God, ^(AF)will cast them down
    into ^(AG)the pit of destruction;
men of ^(AH)blood and treachery
    shall not ^(AI)live out half their days.
But I will ^(AJ)trust in you.

⁷ O Lord, ^(N)you have deceived me,
    and I was deceived;
^(O)you are stronger than I,
    and you have prevailed.
^(P)I have become a laughingstock all the day;
    everyone mocks me.
⁸ For whenever I speak, I cry out,
    I shout, ^(Q)“Violence and destruction!”
For ^(R)the word of the Lord has become for me
    ^(S)a reproach and ^(T)derision all day long.
⁹ If I say, “I will not mention him,
    or speak any more in his name,”
^(U)there is in my heart as it were a burning fire
    shut up in my bones,
and ^(V)I am weary with holding it in,
    and I cannot.
^10 (W)For I hear many whispering.
    ^(X)Terror is on every side!
“Denounce him! ^(Y)Let us denounce him!”
    say all my ^(Z)close friends,
    ^(AA)watching for ^(AB)my fall.
“Perhaps he will be deceived;
    then ^(AC)we can overcome him
    and take our revenge on him.”
¹¹ But ^(AD)the Lord is with me as a dread warrior;
    therefore my persecutors will stumble;
    ^(AE)they will not overcome me.
^(AF)They will be greatly shamed,
    for they will not succeed.
Their ^(AG)eternal dishonor
    will never be forgotten.
¹² O Lord of hosts, who tests the righteous,
    ^(AH)who sees the heart and the mind,^[a]
let me see your vengeance upon them,
    for to you have I committed my cause.

^13 (AI)Sing to the Lord;
    praise the Lord!
For he has delivered the life of the needy
    from the hand of evildoers.

^14 (AJ)Cursed be the day
    on which I was born!
The day when my mother bore me,
    let it not be blessed!
¹⁵ Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father,
“A son is born to you,”
    ^(AK)making him very glad.
¹⁶ Let that man be like ^(AL)the cities
    that the Lord overthrew without pity;
^(AM)let him hear a cry in the morning
    and an alarm at noon,
^17 (AN)because he did not kill me in the womb;
    so my mother would have been my grave,
    and her womb forever great.
^18 (AO)Why did I come out from the womb
    ^(AP)to see toil and sorrow,
    and spend my days in shame?