Psalms

Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble;

My eye wastes away with grief,

Yes my soul and my body!

For my life is spent with grief,

And my years with sighing;

My strength fails because of my iniquity,

And my bones waste away.

But as for me, I trust in You, O Lord;

I say, "You are my God."

My times are in Your hand;

Deliver me from the hand of my enemies,

And from those who persecute me.

Do not withhold Your tender mercies from me, O Lord;

Let Your lovingkindness and Your truth continually preserve me.

For innumerable evils have surrounded me;

My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up;

They are more than the hairs of my head;

Therefore my heart fails me.

But I am poor and needy'

Yet the Lord thinks upon me.

You are my help and my deliver;

Do not delay, O my God.

Psalms 31:9-10, 14-15 & 40:11-12, 17