Psalms 37:6-19

⁶I have been wretched and bowed down continually: I went with a mourning countenance all the day.

⁷For my soul is filled with mockings; and there is no health in my flesh.

⁸I have been afflicted and brought down exceedingly: I have roared for the groaning of my heart.

⁹But all my desire is before you; and my groaning is not hidden from you.

¹⁰My heart is troubled, my strength has failed me; and the light of my eyes is not with me.

¹¹My friends and my neighbours drew near before me, and stood still; and my nearest of kin stood afar off.

¹²While they pressed hard upon me that sought my soul: and they that sought my hurt spoke vanities, and devised deceits all the day.

¹³But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and was as a dumb man not opening his mouth.

¹⁴And I was as a man that hears not, and who has no reproofs in his mouth.

¹⁵For I hoped in you, O Lord: you will hear, O Lord my God.

¹⁶For I said, Lest my enemies rejoice against me: for when my feet were moved, they spoke boastingly against me.

¹⁷For I am ready for plagues, and my grief is continually before me.

¹⁸For I will declare my iniquity, and be distressed for my sin.

¹⁹But my enemies live, and are mightier than I: and they that hate me unjustly are multiplied.