Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁹ Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in trouble;
    my eye wastes away with grief,
    yes, my soul and my body.
¹⁰ For my life is spent with grief,
    and my years with sighing;
my strength fails because of my iniquity,
    and my bones waste away.
¹¹ I became a reproach among all my enemies,
    but especially among my neighbors,
and a dread to my acquaintances;
    those who saw me outside fled from me.
¹² I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind;
    I am like a broken vessel.
¹³ For I have heard the slander of many;
    fear was on every side;
while they took counsel together against me,
    they planned to take away my life.

¹⁴ But I trusted in You, O Lord;
    I said, “You are my God.”
¹⁵ My times are in Your hand;
    deliver me from the hand of my enemies
    and my pursuers.
¹⁶ Make Your face to shine on Your servant;
    save me by Your lovingkindness.

⁵⁵ I called on Your name, O Lord,
    from the lowest pit.
⁵⁶ You have heard my plea:
    “Do not close Your ear to my cry for help!”
⁵⁷ You drew near on the day I called on You,
    and You said, “Do not fear!”

⁵⁸ O Lord, You have pleaded the case for my soul;
    You have redeemed my life.
⁵⁹ O Lord, You have seen the wrong done to me;
    judge my case.
⁶⁰ You have seen all their vengeance,
    all their schemes against me.

⁶¹ You have heard their reproach, O Lord,
    all their schemes against me,
⁶² the lips of my enemies and
    their devices against me all the day.
⁶³ Look at their sitting down and their rising up;
    I am their mocking song.

⁶⁴ Render to them a recompense, O Lord,
    according to the work of their hands.
⁶⁵ Give them hardness of heart;
    may Your curse be upon them!
⁶⁶ In Your anger pursue and destroy them
    from under Your heavens, O Lord!