Don't abandon me to my enemies, who attack me with lies and threats.

You have nothing to do with corrupt judges, who make injustice legal,

who plot against good people and sentence the innocent to death.

When David was told that Ahithophel had joined Absalom's rebellion, he prayed, "Please, LORD, turn Ahithophel's advice into nonsense!"

He upsets the plans of cunning people, and traps the wise in their own schemes, so that nothing they do succeeds;

(SEE 5:12)

But I could not let their enemies boast that they had defeated my people, when it was I myself who had crushed them.'