12. Those that seek after my life lay snares for me, and those that seek my hurt speak calamities and imagine deceits all the day long.
13. But I, as a deaf man, that heard not, and as a dumb man that did not open his mouth.
14. Thus I was as a man that does not hear, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
15. For thee, O Lord, do I wait; thou wilt respond, O Lord my God.
16. For I said, Let them not rejoice over me; let them not magnify themselves against me when my foot slips.
17. For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
18. Therefore I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
19. For my enemies are alive, and they are strong, and those that hate me wrongfully are multiplied;
20. rendering evil for good they are against me because I follow that which is good.
21. Forsake me not, O Lord; O my God, be not far from me.