9: Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.

10: For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

11: I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without 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 devised to take away my life.

14: But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.

15: My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

16: Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.