18 The Lord made it known to me and I knew;

then thou didst show me their evil deeds.

19 But I was like a gentle lamb

led to the slaughter.

I did not know it was against me

they devised schemes, saying,

“Let us destroy the tree with its fruit,

let us cut him off from the land of the living,

that his name be remembered no more.”

20 But, O Lord of hosts, who judgest righteously,

who triest the heart and the mind,

let me see thy vengeance upon them,

for to thee have I committed my cause.