Psalm 31:9-18

Authorized (King James) Version

⁹ Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble:
mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
¹⁰ For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing:
my strength faileth because of mine iniquity,
and my bones are consumed.
¹¹ I was a reproach among all mine enemies,
but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance:
they that did see me without fled from me.
¹² I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind:
I am like a broken vessel.
¹³ For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side:
while they took counsel together against me,
they devised to take away my life.

¹⁴ But I trusted in thee, O Lord:
I said, Thou art my God.
¹⁵ My times are in thy hand:
deliver me from the hand of mine enemies,
and from them that persecute me.
¹⁶ Make thy face to shine upon thy servant:
save me for thy mercies’ sake.
¹⁷ Let me not be ashamed, O Lord; for I have called upon thee:
let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.
¹⁸ Let the lying lips be put to silence;
which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.