Psalm 31:9–18

⁹Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress;

my eye is wasted from grief,

my soul and my body also.

¹⁰For my life is spent with sorrow,

and my years with sighing;

my strength fails because of my misery,^l

and my bones waste away.

¹¹I am the scorn of all my adversaries,

a horror^m to my neighbors,

an object of dread to my acquaintances;

those who see me in the street flee from me.

¹²I have passed out of mind like one who is dead;

I have become like a broken vessel.

¹³Yea, I hear the whispering of many—

terror on every side!—

as they scheme together against me,

as they plot to take my life.

¹⁴But I trust in thee, O Lord,

I say, “Thou art my God.”

¹⁵My times are in thy hand;

deliver me from the hand of my enemies and persecutors!

¹⁶Let thy face shine on thy servant;

save me in thy steadfast love!

¹⁷Let me not be put to shame, O Lord,

for I call on thee;

let the wicked be put to shame,

let them go dumbfounded to Sheol.

¹⁸Let the lying lips be dumb,

which speak insolently against the righteous

in pride and contempt.