Psalms 143:2-7

²My mercy, and my refuge: my support, and my deliverer: My protector, and I have hoped in him: who subdueth my people under me.

³Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?

⁴Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.

⁵Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains and they shall smoke.

⁶Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them.

⁷Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of strange children: