An evil man seeketh only rebellion, And a fierce messenger is sent against him.

And they hang Haman upon the tree that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the fury of the king hath lain down.

A pit he hath prepared, and he diggeth it, And he falleth into a ditch he maketh.

Return doth his perverseness on his head, And on his crown his violence cometh down.

Sunk have nations in a pit they made, In a net that they hid hath their foot been captured.

Jehovah hath been known, Judgment He hath done, By a work of his hands Hath the wicked been snared. Meditation. Selah.

Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in devices that they devised.

A net they have prepared for my steps, Bowed down hath my soul, They have digged before me a pit, They have fallen into its midst. Selah.