Your tongue carries out your destructive plans; ¹  it is as effective as a sharp razor, O deceiver. ² 

Disaster is within it; violence ¹  and deceit do not depart from its public square.

he will certainly rescue you from the snare of the hunter ¹  and from the destructive plague.

Cruel rulers ¹  are not your allies, those who make oppressive laws. ² 

For ¹  they do not speak the truth; ²  their stomachs are like the place of destruction, ³  their throats like an open grave, ⁴  their tongues like a steep slope leading into it. ⁵ 

Those who seek my life try to entrap me; ¹  those who want to harm me speak destructive words; all day long they say deceitful things.

“Look, here is the man who would not make ¹  God his protector! He trusted in his great wealth and was confident about his plans to destroy others.” ² 

For the music director; according to the al-tashcheth style; ²  a prayer ³  of David, written when he fled from Saul into the cave. ⁴  Have mercy on me, O God! Have mercy on me! For in you I have taken shelter. ⁵  In the shadow of your wings ⁶  I take shelter until trouble passes.