1. "My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished, The grave is ready for me.
2. "Surely mockers are with me, And my eye gazes on their provocation.
3. "Lay down, now, a pledge for me with Yourself; Who is there that will be my guarantor?
4. "For You have kept their heart from understanding, Therefore You will not exalt them.
5. "He who informs against friends for a share of the spoil, The eyes of his children also will languish.
6. "But He has made me a byword of the people, And I am one at whom men spit.
7. "My eye has also grown dim because of grief, And all my members are as a shadow.