2. Listen to me!Quickly deliver me!Be my protector and refuge,a stronghold where I can be safe!
3. For you are my high ridge and my stronghold;for the sake of your own reputation you lead me and guide me.
4. You will free me from the net they hid for me,for you are my place of refuge.
5. Into your hand I entrust my life;you will rescue me, O Lord, the faithful God.
6. I hate those who serve worthless idols,but I trust in the Lord.
7. I will be happy and rejoice in your faithfulness,because you notice my painand you are aware of how distressed I am.
8. You do not deliver me over to the power of the enemy;you enable me to stand in a wide open place.
9. Have mercy on me, for I am in distress!My eyes grow dim from suffering.I have lost my strength.
10. For my life nears its end in pain;my years draw to a close as I groan.My strength fails me because of my sin,and my bones become brittle.
11. Because of all my enemies, people disdain me;my neighbors are appalled by my suffering – those who know me are horrified by my condition;those who see me in the street run away from me.
12. I am forgotten, like a dead man no one thinks about;I am regarded as worthless, like a broken jar.
13. For I hear what so many are saying,the terrifying news that comes from every direction.When they plot together against me,they figure out how they can take my life.