In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.

He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.

When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving-kindness: according to the multitude of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

To the chief Musician, Maschil, A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said to him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech. Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.

To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David, when the Ziphims came and said to Saul, Doth not David hide himself with us? Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.

Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;

The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.

They came around me daily like water; they encompassed me together.

Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him.

Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

He spoke, and there came divers sorts of flies, and lice in all their borders.

He spoke, and the locusts came, and caterpillars, and that without number,

The sorrows of death encompassed me, and the pains of hell came upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

I came before the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.