2. Hear, O God, my prayer, and despise not my supplication:
3. be attentive to me and hear me. I am grieved in my exercise; and am troubled,
4. at the voice of the enemy, and at the tribulation of the sinner. For they have cast iniquities upon me: and in wrath they were troublesome to me.
5. My heart is troubled within me: and the fear of death is fallen upon me.
6. Fear and trembling are come upon me: and darkness hath covered me.
7. And I said: Who will give me wings like a dove, and I will fly and be at rest?
8. Lo, I have gone far off flying away; and I abode in the wilderness.
9. I waited for him that hath saved me from pusillanimity of spirit, and a storm.
10. Cast down, O Lord, and divide their tongues; for I have seen iniquity and contradiction in the city.
11. Day and night shall iniquity surround it upon its walls: and in the midst thereof are labour,
12. and injustice. And usury and deceit have not departed from its streets.
13. For if my enemy had reviled me, I would verily have borne with it. And if he that hated me had spoken great things against me, I would perhaps have hidden myself from him.
14. But thou a man of one mind, my guide, and my familiar,