They almost made an end of me on earth, But I, I did not forsake Your orders.
“And now, send hastily and inform Dawiḏ
The proud have utterly scorned me, I did not turn aside from Your Torah.
The cords of the wrong have surrounded me, Your Torah I have not forgotten.
“Yet they seek Me day by day, and delight to know My ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and did not forsake the right-ruling of their Elohim. They ask of Me rulings of righteousness, they delight in drawing near to Elohim.
“And do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the being. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both being and body in Gehenna.
But Dawiḏ
“And see, as your life has been valued in my eyes today, so let my life be valued in the eyes of יהוה, and let Him deliver me out of all distress.”