Psalm 31:9-16

Revised Standard Version

⁹ Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress;
    my eye is wasted from grief,
    my soul and my body also.
¹⁰ For my life is spent with sorrow,
    and my years with sighing;
my strength fails because of my misery,^[a]
    and my bones waste away.

¹¹ I am the scorn of all my adversaries,
    a horror^[b] to my neighbors,
an object of dread to my acquaintances;
    those who see me in the street flee from me.
¹² I have passed out of mind like one who is dead;
    I have become like a broken vessel.
¹³ Yea, I hear the whispering of many—
    terror on every side!—
as they scheme together against me,
    as they plot to take my life.

¹⁴ But I trust in thee, O Lord,
    I say, “Thou art my God.”
¹⁵ My times are in thy hand;
    deliver me from the hand of my enemies and persecutors!
¹⁶ Let thy face shine on thy servant;
    save me in thy steadfast love!