Tehillim 140

²Deliver me, Hashem , from adam rah;

preserve me from ish chamasim (violent men) ;

³Which plan ra'ot (evils) in their lev;

kol yom they incite milchamot (wars) .

⁴They have sharpened their leshonot like a nachash;

the venom of a spider is under their sfatayim (lips) .

Selah

⁵Be shomer over me, Hashem , and keep me from the hands of the rashah;

protect me from ish chamasim,

whose scheme is to cause my steps to trip.

⁶The ge'im (proud, arrogant ones) have hid a pach for me, and chavalim (cords, ropes) ;[#140:6 of inordinate ambition]

they have spread a reshet (net) close by the path;

they have set mokshim (traps) for me.

Selah

⁷I said unto Hashem , Thou art Eli;

hear the kol tachanunai (voice of my supplications) , Hashem .

⁸Hashem Adonoi, Oz Yeshu'ati (strength of my salvation) ,

Thou hast covered my rosh in the Yom Neshek (Day of Arms, Day of Battle) .

⁹Grant not, Hashem , the desires of the rashah;

let not his plot succeed;

lest they exalt themselves.

Selah

¹⁰As for the rosh of those that surround me,

let the amal (trouble) of their own sfatayim (lips) cover them.

¹¹Let burning coals fall upon them;

let them be cast into the eish;

into mahamorot (watery pits) , that they rise not up again.

¹²Let not an ish lashon (idle talker, slanderer) be established in ha'aretz;

rah shall hunt down the ish chamas to overthrow him.

¹³I know that Hashem will maintain the din oni (cause of the poor) ,

and the mishpat evyonim (the right of the needy) .

¹⁴Surely the tzaddikim shall give thanks unto Thy Shem;

the upright shall dwell in Thy presence.