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

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.

The heathen are sunk down in the pit {that} they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.

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.

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

O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;

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

That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.

He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch {which} he made. {He made a pit: Heb. He hath digged a pit}

For my love they are my adversaries: but I {give myself unto} prayer.

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.

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, {and} to turn away thy wrath from them.

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

They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen {themselves}. Selah.

They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

All thy commandments {are} faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me. {faithful: Heb. faithfulness}

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.

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

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

From the wicked that oppress me, {from} my deadly enemies, {who} compass me about. {oppress: Heb. waste} {my...: Heb. my enemies against the soul}

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

Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou {art} my strength.

And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by laying of wait, that he die;

Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that {there is} neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.

And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit {was} empty, {there was} no water in it.

If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive {not} with thy lips.