When my spirit is faint, you know my way. In the path where I walk, they have hidden a trap for me.
Keep me from the trap that they have laid for me and from the snares of evildoers.
The arrogant have hidden a trap for me, and with cords they have spread a net, along the road they have set snares for me. Selah
May a cry be heard from their houses when you bring the marauder suddenly upon them! For they have dug a pit to catch me and laid snares for my feet.
Therefore my spirit faints within me; my heart within me is appalled.
From the end of the earth I call to you, when my heart is faint. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I,
My heart is stricken and withered like grass; I am too wasted to eat my bread.
I think of God, and I moan; I meditate, and my spirit faints. Selah
They stir up strife; they lurk; they watch my steps, as they hoped to take my life.
take me out of the net that is hidden for me, for you are my refuge.
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within my breast;
for the Lord watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I shall come out like gold.
Then the Pharisees went and plotted to entrap him in what he said.
If you try my heart, if you visit me by night, if you test me, you will find no wickedness in me; my mouth does not transgress.
Those of low estate are but a breath; those of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.
Hear my prayer, O Lord; let my cry come to you.
Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the presence of the Lord! Lift your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.