8My delight, O God, is to do your will, and your law is within my heart.”
9Well, O Lord, you know that, with lips unrestrained, your righteousness I told in the great congregation,
10not hiding it in my heart. I have told of your steadfast help, from the great congregation I hid not your love and your faithfulness.
11So do not restrain, Lord, your pity from us. Your love and your faithfulness — ever may they be our shield.
12For evils that cannot be numbered have compassed me round. My transgressions have followed me up — I can bear it no more. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has forsaken me.
13O Lord, be pleased to deliver me, haste to my help, O Lord.