Psalms 31:8-14

⁸And thou enclosedest not me altogether within the hands of the enemy; thou hast set my feet in a large place.

⁹Lord, have thou mercy on me, for I am troubled; mine eye is troubled in ire, my soul and my womb also.

¹⁰For why my life failed in sorrow; and my years in wailings. My virtue is made feeble in poverty; and my bones be troubled.

¹¹Over all mine enemies I am made a shame, and greatly to my neighbours; and dread to my known. They that saw me withoutforth, fled from me;

¹²I am given to forgetting, as a dead man from the heart. I am made as a forlorn vessel;

¹³for I heard despising of many men dwelling in compass. In that thing while they came together against me; they counselled to take my life.

¹⁴But, Lord, I hoped in thee; I said, Thou art my God;