LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.

Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.

Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.

All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them.

They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.

Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.

For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,

The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.

The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.

All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.

He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.

Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.

But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.