Psalm 30:2–19

²In thee, O Lord, have I hoped, let me never be confounded: deliver me in thy justice.

³Bow down thy ear to me: make haste to deliver me. Be thou unto me a God, a protector, and a house of refuge, to save me.

⁴For thou art my strength and my refuge; and for thy name’s sake thou wilt lead me, and nourish me.

⁵Thou wilt bring me out of this snare, which they have hidden for me: for thou art my protector.

⁶Into thy hands I commend my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, the God of truth.

⁷Thou hast hated them that regard vanities, to no purpose. But I have hoped in the Lord:

⁸I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy. For thou hast regarded my humility, thou hast saved my soul out of distresses.

⁹And thou hast not shut me up in the hands of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a spacious place.

¹⁰Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with wrath, my soul, and my belly:

¹¹For my life is wasted with grief: and my years in sighs. My strength is weakened through poverty and my bones are disturbed.

¹²I am become a reproach among all my enemies, and very much to my neighbours; and a fear to my acquaintance. They that saw me without fled from me.

¹³I am forgotten as one dead from the heart. I am become as a vessel that is destroyed.

¹⁴For I have heard the blame of many that dwell round about. While they assembled together against me, they consulted to take away my life.

¹⁵But I have put my trust in thee, O Lord: I said: Thou art my God.

¹⁶My lots are in thy hands. Deliver me out of the hands of my enemies; and from them that persecute me.

¹⁷Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me in thy mercy.

¹⁸Let me not be confounded, O Lord, for I have called upon thee. Let the wicked be ashamed, and be brought down to hell.

¹⁹Let deceitful lips be made dumb. Which speak iniquity against the just, with pride and abuse.