In my spirit languishing upon me, and thou knewest my beaten paths. In the way which I shall go they hid a snare for me.
For he knew the way with me,: he tried me.; I shall come forth as gold.
For Jehovah shall know the way of the just: but the way of the unjust shall perish.
Prayer for the poor when he shall languish, and before Jehovah shall pour out his complaint O Jehovah, hear my prayer, and my cry shall come to thee.
My heart was struck and dried up as grass, that I forget eating my bread.
The proud hid a snare for me, and cords; they spread a net at the hand of the way; they set snares for me. Silence.
Watch me from the hands of the snare they will lay for me, and the snares of those working iniquity.
And my spirit will languish upon me, and my heart will be desolate within me.
Thou didst try my heart; thou didst review the night; thou didst refine me, thou wilt find nothing: I purposed, my mouth shall not pass by.
I was poured out as water, and all my bones were sundered; my heart was as wax being melted in the midst of my bowels.
Thou wilt bring me forth from the net which they concealed for me: for thou my fortress.
They will sojourn, they will hide, they will watch my heels as they waited for my soul
From the end of the earth I will call to thee, in the fainting of my heart: thou wilt lead me into the rock it will be lifted up above me.
Surely the sons of man vanity, the sons of man falsehood: to be brought up into the balances, they together of vanity.
I will remember God and I shall be disquieted: I shall be depressed and my spirit will languish. Silence.
A cry shall be heard from their houses, for thou shalt bring upon them a trap suddenly, for they dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet
Arise, cry aloud in the night: at the head of the watches pour out thy heart as water before the face of Jehovah: lift up thy hands to him for the soul of thy young children fainting with hunger in the head of all the streets.
Then the Pharisees, having gone, took counsel how they might ensnare him in word.