1. Give ear to my prayer, O God,and hide not yourself from my plea for mercy!
2. Attend to me, and answer me;I am restless in my complaint and I moan,
3. because of the noise of the enemy,because of the oppression of the wicked.For they drop trouble upon me,and in anger they bear a grudge against me.
4. My heart is in anguish within me; the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
5. Fear and trembling come upon me,and horror overwhelms me.
6. And I say, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove!I would fly away and be at rest;
7. yes, I would wander far away;I would lodge in the wilderness; Selah
8. I would hurry to find a shelterfrom the raging wind and tempest.”
9. Destroy, O Lord, divide their tongues;for I see violence and strife in the city.
10. Day and night they go around iton its walls,and iniquity and trouble are within it;
11. ruin is in its midst; oppression and frauddo not depart from its marketplace.
12. For it is not an enemy who taunts me—then I could bear it;it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me—then I could hide from him.