They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, {being} mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored {that} which I took not away.

For without cause have they hid for me their net {in} a pit, {which} without cause they have digged for my soul.

If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.

They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together. {daily: or, all the day}

For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against {them that are} quiet in the land.

And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and said unto him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his works {have been} to thee-ward very good:

And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counsellor, from his city, {even} from Giloh, while he offered sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.

And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial: {bloody...: Heb. man of blood}

Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints. {saints: or, most holy}

Many bulls have compassed me: strong {bulls} of Bashan have beset me round.

For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not {for} my transgression, nor {for} my sin, O LORD.

And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil {is} in mine hand?

They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

But {this cometh to pass}, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.

But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. {Raca: that is, Vain fellow}

They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, {being} mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored {that} which I took not away.

And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.

They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow {the thing that} good {is}.

They rewarded me evil for good {to} the spoiling of my soul. {spoiling: Heb. depriving}

Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: {but} I will meditate in thy precepts.

And {one} told David, saying, Ahithophel {is} among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.

Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: {neither} let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause. {wrongfully: Heb. falsely}

Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.

And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.

And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon their faces: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto them.

Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this {fellow} hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that {pertained} unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good.