Psalms 109:3

⁴Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

⁷For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

²⁴If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father. ²⁵But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

¹⁷They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me.

²⁰For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

⁷Shimei said when he cursed, “Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and wicked fellow! ⁸The LORD has returned on you all the blood of Saul’s house, in whose place you have reigned! The LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son! Behold, you are caught by your own mischief, because you are a man of blood!”

¹²Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.

³For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, LORD. ⁴I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me!

¹⁸He said, “Why does my lord pursue his servant? For what have I done? What evil is in my hand?

¹¹They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.