PSALMS 38:11-21

¹¹My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

¹²They also that seek after my life lay snares for me; and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

¹³But I, as a deaf man, hear not; and I am as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.

¹⁴Yea, I am as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

¹⁵For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt answer, O Lord my God.

¹⁶For I said, Lest they rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.

¹⁷For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.

¹⁸For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

¹⁹But mine enemies are lively, and are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

²⁰They also that render evil for good are adversaries unto me, because I follow the thing that is good.

²¹Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.