Psalms 38:9-14

⁹Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.

¹⁰My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.

¹¹My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.

¹²They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

¹³But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.

¹⁴Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.