Attend Thou unto my loud cry, For I have become very low, Deliver Thou me from my pursuers, For they have been stronger than I.
A preserver of the simple `is' Jehovah, I was low, and to me He giveth salvation.
Who in our lowliness hath remembered us, For to the age `is' His kindness.
For an enemy hath pursued my soul, He hath bruised to the earth my life, He hath caused me to dwell in dark places, As the dead of old.
Haste, answer me, O Jehovah, My spirit hath been consumed, Hide not Thou Thy face from me, Or I have been compared with those going down `to' the pit.
A Prayer of David. Hear, O Jehovah, righteousness, attend my cry, Give ear `to' my prayer, without lips of deceit.
He delivereth me from my strong enemy, And from those hating me, For they have been stronger than I.
I had not believed to look on the goodness of Jehovah In the land of the living!
A Psalm of David, in his fleeing from the face of Absalom his son. Jehovah, how have my distresses multiplied! Many are rising up against me.
And mine enemies `are' lively, They have been strong, and those hating me without cause, Have been multiplied.
Therefore we fear not in the changing of earth, And in the slipping of mountains Into the heart of the seas.
For, lo, they laid wait for my soul, Assembled against me are strong ones, Not my transgression nor my sin, O Jehovah.
Remember not for us the iniquities of forefathers, Haste, let Thy mercies go before us, For we have been very weak.
He is saying of Jehovah, `My refuge, and my bulwark, my God, I trust in Him,'
Who shall lay a charge against the choice ones of God? God `is' He that is declaring righteous,
but in all these we more than conquer, through him who loved us;
`After whom hath the king of Israel come out? after whom art thou pursuing? -- after a dead dog! after one flea!