But mine enemies are lively, and are strong; And they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

Jehovah, make me to know mine end, And the measure of my days, what it is; Let me know how frail I am.

Sacrifice and offering thou hast no delight in; Mine ears hast thou opened: Burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not required.

For innumerable evils have compassed me about; Mine iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; They are more than the hairs of my head; And my heart hath failed me.

Mine enemies speak evil against me,'saying , When will he die, and his name perish?

Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, Who did eat of my bread, Hath lifted up his heel against me.

By this I know that thou delightest in me, Because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.

And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, And settest me before thy face for ever.

As with a sword in my bones, mine adversaries reproach me, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.

For every beast of the forest is mine, And the cattle upon a thousand hills.

I know all the birds of the mountains; And the wild beasts of the field are mine.

If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; For the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin.

Hide thy face from my sins, And blot out all mine iniquities.

He will requite the evil unto mine enemies: Destroy thou them in thy truth.

For he hath delivered me out of all trouble; And mine eye hath seen my desire upon mine enemies.

But it was thou, a man mine equal, My companion, and my familiar friend.

Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long; For they are many that fight proudly against me.

Then shall mine enemies turn back in the day that I call: This I know, that God is for me.

Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: Set me on high from them that rise up against me.

My God with his lovingkindness will meet me: God will let me see my desire upon mine enemies.

Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the defence of my head; Judah is my sceptre.

I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: They that would cut me off, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: That which I took not away I have to restore.

Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: Ransom me because of mine enemies.

Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: Mine adversaries are all before thee.

For mine enemies speak concerning me; And they that watch for my soul take counsel together,

Thou holdest mine eyes watching: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart; And my spirit maketh diligent search.

Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me; Thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

Mine eye wasteth away by reason of affliction: I have called daily upon thee, O Jehovah; I have spread forth my hands unto thee.

Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, And mine acquaintance into darkness.

With whom my hand shall be established; Mine arm also shall strengthen him.

If his children forsake my law, And walk not in mine ordinances;

Mine eye also hath seen my desire on mine enemies, Mine ears have heard my desire of the evil-doers that rise up against me.

I will set no base thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; It shall not cleave unto me.

Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: He that walketh in a perfect way, he shall minister unto me.

He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: He that speaketh falsehood shall not be established before mine eyes.

Mine enemies reproach me all the day; They that are mad against me do curse by me.

Saying , Touch not mine anointed ones, And do my prophets no harm.

Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the defence of my head; Judah is my sceptre.

This is the reward of mine adversaries from Jehovah, And of them that speak evil against my soul.

Let mine adversaries be clothed with dishonor, And let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.

For thou hast delivered my soul from death, Mine eyes from tears, And my feet from falling.

Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold Wondrous things out of thy law.

Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, And quicken me in thy ways.

Mine eyes fail for thy word, While I say, When wilt thou comfort me?

Unless thy law had been my delight, I should then have perished in mine affliction.

Thy commandments make me wiser than mine enemies; For they are ever with me.

SAMEKH. I hate them that are of a double mind; But thy law do I love.

AYIN. I have done justice and righteousness: Leave me not to mine oppressors.

Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, And for thy righteous word.

Streams of water run down mine eyes, Because they observe not thy law.

My zeal hath consumed me, Because mine adversaries have forgotten thy words.

Mine eyes anticipated the night-watches, That I might meditate on thy word.

RESH. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me; For I do not forget thy law.

Many are my persecutors and mine adversaries; Yet have I not swerved from thy testimonies.

I will lift up mine eyes unto the mountains: From whence shall my help come?

Unto thee do I lift up mine eyes, O thou that sittest in the heavens.

Jehovah, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty; Neither do I exercise myself in great matters, Or in things too wonderful for me.

I will not give sleep to mine eyes, Or slumber to mine eyelids;

There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed.

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me; Thou wilt stretch forth thy hand against the wrath of mine enemies, And thy right hand will save me.

Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising; Thou understandest my thought afar off.

Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance; And in thy book they were all written, Even the days that were ordained for me , When as yet there was none of them.

I hate them with perfect hatred: They are become mine enemies.

For mine eyes are unto thee, O Jehovah the Lord: In thee do I take refuge; leave not my soul destitute.

Deliver me, O Jehovah, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me.

And in thy lovingkindness cut off mine enemies, And destroy all them that afflict my soul; For I am thy servant.

Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, Nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

Counsel is mine, and sound knowledge: I am understanding; I have might.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: How much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind!

My son, if thy heart be wise, My heart will be glad, even mine:

I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I have gotten me great wisdom above all that were before me in Jerusalem; yea, my heart hath had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor; and this was my portion from all my labor.

Look not upon me, because I am swarthy, Because the sun hath scorched me. My mother's sons were incensed against me; They made me keeper of the vineyards; But mine own vineyard have I not kept.

My beloved is mine, and I am his: He feedeth his flock among the lilies.

I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine; He feedeth his flock among the lilies,

My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: Thou, O Solomon, shalt have the thousand, And those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.

And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

Therefore saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies;

In mine ears'saith Jehovah of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts.

Ho Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, the staff in whose hand is mine indignation!

For yet a very little while, and the indignation against thee'shall be accomplished, and mine anger'shall be directed to his destruction.

I have commanded my consecrated ones, yea, I have called my mighty men for mine anger, even my proudly exulting ones.

Let mine outcasts dwell with thee; as for Moab, be thou a covert to him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortioner is brought to nought, destruction ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.

Wherefore my heart soundeth like a harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kir-heres.

for that Jehovah of hosts hath blessed them, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.

And Jehovah of hosts revealed himself in mine ears, Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you till ye die, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is'stayed on thee ; because he trusteth in thee.

Because of thy raging against me, and because thine arrogancy is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

For I will defend this city to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

Like a swallow or a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.

But now thus saith Jehovah that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed thee; I have called thee by thy name, thou art mine.

I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake; and I will not remember thy sins.

And none calleth to mind, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?

Remember this, and show yourselves men; bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors.