1	Give ear to my prayer, O God; do not hide yourself from my supplication.
2	Attend to me, and answer me; I am troubled in my complaint. I am distraught
3	by the noise of the enemy, because of the clamor of the wicked. For they bring trouble upon me, and in anger they cherish enmity against me.
4	My heart is in anguish within me, the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
5	Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror overwhelms me.
6	And I say, “O that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest;
7	truly, I would flee far away; I would lodge in the wilderness; Selah
8	I would hurry to find a shelter for myself from the raging wind and tempest.”
9	Confuse, O Lord, confound their speech; for I see violence and strife in the city.
10	Day and night they go around it on its walls, and iniquity and trouble are within it;
11	ruin is in its midst; oppression and fraud do not depart from its marketplace.
12	It is not enemies who taunt me — I could bear that; it is not adversaries who deal insolently with me — I could hide from them.
13	But it is you, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend,
14	with whom I kept pleasant company; we walked in the house of God with the throng.
15	Let death come upon them; let them go down alive to Sheol; for evil is in their homes and in their hearts.
16	But I call upon God, and the LORD will save me.
17	Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan, and he will hear my voice.
18	He will redeem me unharmed from the battle that I wage, for many are arrayed against me.
19	God, who is enthroned from of old, Selah will hear, and will humble them — because they do not change, and do not fear God.
20	My companion laid hands on a friend and violated a covenant with me
21	with speech smoother than butter, but with a heart set on war; with words that were softer than oil, but in fact were drawn swords.
22	Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.
23	But you, O God, will cast them down into the lowest pit; the bloodthirsty and treacherous shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.