7. I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy, for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities
8. and hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; thou hast set my feet in a wide place.
9. Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble: my 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 fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
11. I was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to my acquaintances: those that see me without flee from me.
12. I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I have become like a lost 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 my enemies and from those that persecute me.
16. Make thy face to shine upon thy slave; 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 cut off for Sheol.
18. Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.