Attend to my cry, For I am brought very low; Deliver me from my persecutors, For they are stronger than I.
Oh, do not remember former iniquities against us! Let Your tender mercies come speedily to meet us, For we have been brought very low.
The Lord preserves the simple; I was brought low, and He saved me.
Who remembered us in our lowly state, For His mercy endures forever;
Hear a just cause, O Lord, Attend to my cry; Give ear to my prayer which is not from deceitful lips.
Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.
Answer me speedily, O Lord; My spirit fails! Do not hide Your face from me, Lest I be like those who go down into the pit.
For look, they lie in wait for my life; The mighty gather against me, Not for my transgression nor for my sin, O Lord.
But my enemies are vigorous, and they are strong; And those who hate me wrongfully have multiplied.
He delivered me from my strong enemy, From those who hated me, For they were too strong for me.
Lord, how they have increased who trouble me! Many are they who rise up against me.
After whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea?
For the enemy has persecuted my soul; He has crushed my life to the ground; He has made me dwell in darkness, Like those who have long been dead.
I would have lost heart, unless I had believed That I would see the goodness of the Lord In the land of the living.
Therefore we will not fear, Even though the earth be removed, And though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust.”