Psalms 31:8-15

⁸And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large place.

⁹Be gracious unto me, Jehovah, for I am in trouble: mine eye wasteth away with vexation, my soul and my belly.

¹⁰For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength faileth through mine iniquity, and my bones are wasted.

¹¹More than to all mine oppressors, I am become exceedingly a reproach, even to my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that see me without flee from me.

¹²I am forgotten in their heart as a dead man; I am become like a broken vessel.

¹³For I have heard the slander of many — terror on every side — when they take counsel together against me: they plot to take away my life.

¹⁴But I confided in thee, Jehovah; I said, thou art my God.

¹⁵My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from my persecutors.