Attend to my cry, for I languished greatly: deliver me from those pursuing me, for they were strengthened above me.
Thou wilt not remember against us former iniquities: thy compassions shall quickly anticipate us, for we were greatly weak:
Jehovah watching the simple: I was brought low, and he will save for me.
He remembered for us our lowness: for his mercy is forever:
Prayer of David. Hear justice, O Jehovah, attend to my outcry, give ear to my prayer, not in lips of deceit.
But in all these we obtain a complete victory by him having loved us.
Who shall demand payment for the chosen of God? God justifying.
Quickly answer me, O Jehovah: my spirit failed: thou wilt not hide thy face from me: I was made like those going down to the pit.
For behold, they lay in wait for my soul: the strong will gather against me; not my transgression and not my sin, O Jehovah.
For I will announce mine iniquity: I shall be afraid for my sin.
He will deliver me from my strong enemy, and from them hating me: for they were strong above me.
Chanting of David in his fleeing from the face of Absalom his son. Jehovah, how they pressing upon me were multiplied! many rising up against me.
After whom did the king of Israel come forth? after whom pursuest thou? after a dead dog? after one flea?
For the enemy pursued my soul; he crushed to the earth my life; he caused me to dwell in darknesses, as the dead of old.
Unless I believed to look upon the goodness of Jehovah in the land of the living.
For this we will not fear in the changing of the earth, and in the moving of the mountains into the heart of the seas.
Saying to Jehovah, My refuge and my fortress: my God, I will trust in thee