{\b For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. A Psalm of David.}\par\par\tab Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness;\par\tab Thou hast set me at large {\i when I was} in distress:\par\tab Have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
For my life is spent with sorrow,\par\tab And my years with sighing:\par\tab My strength faileth because of mine iniquity,\par\tab And my bones are wasted away.