SEnd aid and save me from my foes,
O Lord, I pray to thee:
Defend and keep me from all those
that rise and strive with me.
[verse 2] O Lord, preserve me from those men,
whose doings are not good:
And set me sure and safe from them
that thirst still after bloud.
[verse 3] For lo, they wait my soul to take,
they rage against me still:
Yea, for no fault that I did make,
I never did them ill.
[verse 4] They run and do themselves prepare,
when I no whit offend:
Arise and save me from their snare,
and see what they intend.
[verse 5] O Lord of hosts of Israel,
arise and strike all lands:
And pity none that do rebel,
and in their mischiefs stands.
[verse 6] At night they stir and seek about,
as hounds they howl and grin:
And all the city clean throughout,
from place to place they run.
[verse 7] They speak of me with mouth alway,
but in their lips are swords:
They 'greed my death, and then would say,
What? none doth hear our words.
[verse 8] But, Lord, thou hast their ways espi'd,
and laught thereat apace:
The heathen folk thou dost deride,
and mock them to their face.
[verse 9] The strength that doth our foes withstand,
O Lord, doth come from thee:
My God he is my help at hand,
a fort of fence to me.
[verse 10] The Lord to me doth shew his grace
in great abundance still:
That I may see my foes in case
such as my heart doth will.