will you be exalted to heaven?
    No, you will be brought down to Hades.^(A)

⁴ My heart is in anguish within me;
    the terrors of death have fallen upon me.^(B)
5 Fear and trembling come upon me,
    and horror overwhelms me.^(C)
6 And I say, “O that I had wings like a dove!
    I would fly away and be at rest;^(D)
7 truly, I would flee far away;
    I would lodge in the wilderness; Selah
⁸ I would hurry to find a shelter for myself
    from the raging wind and tempest.”^(E)

⁹ Confuse, O Lord, confound their speech,
    for I see violence and strife in the city.^(F)
10 Day and night they go around it
    on its walls,
and iniquity and trouble are within it;
¹¹     ruin is in its midst;
oppression and fraud
    do not depart from its marketplace.^(G)

¹⁸ Do good to Zion in your good pleasure;
    rebuild the walls of Jerusalem;^(A)

³ But you, O Lord, are a shield around me,
    my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.^(A)
4 I cry aloud to the Lord,
    and he answers me from his holy hill. Selah^(B)

⁵ I lie down and sleep;
    I wake again, for the Lord sustains me.^(C)
6 I am not afraid of ten thousands of people
    who have set themselves against me all around.

⁷ Rise up, O Lord!
    Deliver me, O my God!
For you strike all my enemies on the cheek;
    you break the teeth of the wicked.

⁸ Deliverance belongs to the Lord;
    may your blessing be on your people! Selah^(D)