⁹Be gracious unto me, Jehovah, for I am in trouble: mine eye wasteth away with vexation, my soul and my belly. ¹⁰For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength faileth through mine iniquity, and my bones are wasted. ¹¹More than to all mine oppressors, I am become exceedingly a reproach, even to my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that see me without flee from me. ¹²I am forgotten in their heart as a dead man; I am become like a broken vessel. ¹³For I have heard the slander of many—terror on every side—when they take counsel together against me: they plot to take away my life. ¹⁴But I confided in thee, Jehovah; I said, thou art my God. ¹⁵My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from my persecutors. ¹⁶Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me in thy loving-kindness. ¹⁷Jehovah, let me not be ashamed; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, let them be silent in Sheol. ¹⁸Let the lying lips become dumb, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.

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Psalm 31:13–14: For I hear the whispering of many—terror on every side!—as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life. But I trust in you, O LORD; I say, “You are my God.”

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