For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.

O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

RESH. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.

Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

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

For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.

Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.} Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.

Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.

Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.

All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.

And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.

Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.