1 To Dauid himself.
IUDGE ô Lord them that hurt me: ouerthrow them that impugne me.
2 Take armour and shield: and rise vp to helpe me.
3 Bring forth the sword, and shut vp against them, that persecute me: say to my soule: I am thy saluation.
4 Let them be counfounded & ashamed, that seeke my soule. Let them be turned backward, and be confounded that thinke euil against me
5 Be they made as dust before the face of winde; and the angel of our Lord straictning them.
6 Let their way be made darkenesse and slippernes: and the angel of our Lord pursewing them.
7 Because they haue hid the destruction of their snare for me without cause: in vaine haue they vpbrayded my soule.
8 Let the snare which he knoweth not, come on him; and the net, which he hath hid, catch him: and let him fal into the verie same snare.
9 But my soule shal reioyce in our Lord: and shal be delighted vpon his saluation.
10 Al my bones shal say: Lord, who is like to thee? Deliuering the needie from the hand of them that are stronger then he: the needie and poore from them that spoile him.
11 Vniust witnesses rysing vp, asked me things that I knew not.
12 They repayed me euil things for good, sterilitie to my soule.
13 But I when they were trublesome to me, did put on cloth of heare. I humbled my soule in fasting: and my prayer shal be turned into my bosome.
14 As a neighbour, as our brother, so did I please: as mourning and sorowful so was I humbled.
15 And they reioyced against me, and came together: scourges were gathered together vpon me, and I was ignorant.
16 They were dissipated, and not compunct, they tempted me, they scorned me with scorning: they gnashed vpon me with their teeth.
17 Lord when wilt thou regard? restore thou my soule from their malignitie, myne only one from the lions.
18 I wil confesse to thee in the great Church, in a graue people I wil prayse thee.
19 Let them not reioyce ouer me that are my aduersaries vniustly: that hate me without cause, and twinckle with the eies.
20 Because they spake in deede peaceably to me: and in the anger of the earth speaking they meant guiles.
21 And they opened their mouth awide vpon me: they said; Wel, wel, our eies haue seene.
22 Thou hast sene ô Lord, keepe not silence: Lord depart not from me.
23 Arise and attend to my iudgement: my God, and my Lord vnto my cause.
24 Iudge me according to thy iustice ô Lord my God, and let them not reioyce ouer me
25 Let them not say in their hartes: Wel, wel, to our soule: neitheir let them say: We haue deuoured him.
26 Let them blush and be ashamed together, that reioyce at my euils. Let them be clothed with confusion and shame; that speake great things vpon me.
27 Let them reioyce and be glad, that wil my iustice: and let them say alwayes: Our Lord be magnified, that wil the peace of his seruant.
28 And my tongue shal meditate thy iustice, thy prayse al the day.