Bless my enemies, O Lord. And I bless them and do not curse them. My enemies have driven me into Your arms more than my friends have. My friends have bound me to the earth; My enemies have loosened my bonds from the earth and have torn up all my hopes in the earth. They have turned me into a stranger in the kingdoms of this earth and into a superfluous inhabitant of this earth. Like an animal that finds a safer shelter when hunted down rather than when not, so have I, hunted down by my enemies, found the safest shelter by hiding under Thy tent where neither friend nor foe can slay my soul. Bless my enemies, O Lord. And I bless them and do not curse them. They, instead of me, have confessed my sins before the world.