Psalms 143:3-7

³Lord, what is man, that you are made known to him? or the son of man, that you take account of him?

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

⁵O Lord, bow your heavens, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

⁶Send lightning, and you shall scatter them: send forth your arrows, and you shall discomfit them.

⁷Send forth your hand from on high; rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hand of strange children;