Psalm 31:9–18

⁹Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress:

Mine eye wasteth away with grief, yea, my soul and my body.

¹⁰For my life is spent with sorrow,

And my years with sighing:

My strength faileth because of mine iniquity,

And my bones are wasted away.

¹¹Because of all mine adversaries I am become a reproach,

Yea, unto my neighbors exceedingly,

And a fear to mine acquaintance:

They that did see me without fled from me.

¹²I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind:

I am like a broken vessel.

¹³For I have heard the defaming of many,

Terror on every side:

While they took counsel together against me

They devised to take away my life.

¹⁴But I trusted in thee, O Jehovah:

I said, Thou art my God.

¹⁵My times are in thy hand:

Deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

¹⁶Make thy face to shine upon thy servant:

Save me in thy lovingkindness.

¹⁷Let me not be put to shame, O Jehovah; for I have called upon thee:

Let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silent in Sheol.

¹⁸Let the lying lips be dumb,

Which speak against the righteous insolently,

With pride and contempt.