For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

[To the chief Musician, {A Psalm} of David the servant of the LORD.] The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, {that there is} no fear of God before his eyes.

When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people {as} they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.

Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.

And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite {is} better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom. {appointed: Heb. commanded}

The proud have had me greatly in derision: {yet} have I not declined from thy law.

Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah {is} exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not. {full of blood: Heb. filled with, etc} {perverseness: or, wresting of judgment}

The proud have forged a lie against me: {but} I will keep thy precepts with {my} whole heart.

The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

Then said Absalom to Ahithophel, Give counsel among you what we shall do.

The proud have digged pits for me, which {are} not after thy law.

Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require {it}.

For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,

He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see {it}.

Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek {after God}: God {is} not in all his thoughts. {God is...: or, all his thoughts are, There is no God}

And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him.

For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man. {violent...: Heb. man of violence}

For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

The God of my rock; in him will I trust: {he is} my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.

Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred. {cruel...: Heb. hatred of violence}