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10 Let burning coals fall on them;
let them be dropped into the fire,
into bottomless pits from which they cannot rise.
11 Do not let a slanderer[a] be established in the land;
as for the man of violence, let evil hunt him quickly.
12 I know[b] that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted,
and justice for the needy.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 140:11 Literally “man of tongue”
  2. Psalm 140:12 According to the reading tradition (Qere)