19 Listen attentively to me, O Yahweh,

and listen to the voice of my opponents.

20 Should good be repaid in place of evil?

Yet they have dug a pit for me.

Remember my standing ⌊before you⌋o to speak good for them,

to avert your wrath from them.

21 ⌊Therefore⌋p give their children to the famine,

and hand them over to the ⌊power⌋q of the sword,

and let their wives be bereaved and widows,

and let their men be killed by death,

their young men struck dead

by the sword in the battle.

22 Let a cry for help be heard from their houses

when you suddenly bring upon them the raiding band,

for they have dug a pit to catch me,

and they have fixed secretly a trap for my feet.

23 But you, O Yahweh, you know

⌊all their plans of assassination against me⌋.r

You must not make atonement for their iniquity,

and you must not cause their sin to be blotted out from ⌊before you⌋.s

But let them be overthrown ⌊before you⌋.t

Deal with them in the time of your anger.