7. You have hated those who practice emptiness to no purpose. But I have hoped in the Lord.
8. I will exult and rejoice in your mercy. For you have looked upon my humility; you have saved my soul from needfulness.
9. And you have not enclosed me in the hands of the enemy. You have set my feet in a spacious place.
10. Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am troubled. My eye has been disturbed by wrath, along with my soul and my gut.
11. For my life has fallen into sorrow, and my years into sighing. My virtue has been weakened in poverty, and my bones have been disturbed.
12. I have become a disgrace among all my enemies, and even more so to my neighbors, and a dread to my acquaintances. Those who catch sight of me, flee away from me.
13. I have become forgotten, like one dead to the heart. I have become like a damaged utensil.
14. For I have heard the harsh criticism of many who linger in the area. While assembled together against me in that place, they deliberated on how to take away my life.
15. But I have hoped in you, O Lord. I said, "You are my God."
16. My fate is in your hands. Rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from those who are persecuting me.
17. Shine your face upon your servant. Save me in your mercy.
18. Do not let me be confounded, Lord, for I have called upon you. Let the impious be ashamed and be drawn down into Hell.
19. May deceitful lips be silenced: those that speak iniquity against the just, in arrogance and in abusiveness.
20. How great is the multitude of your sweetness, O Lord, which you keep hidden for those who fear you, which you have perfected for those who hope in you, in the sight of the sons of men.