7I am full of hate for those who go after false gods; but my hope is in the Lord.
8I will be glad and have delight in your mercy; because you have seen my trouble; you have had pity on my soul in its sorrows;
9And you have not given me into the hand of my hater; you have put my feet in a wide place.
10Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes are wasted with grief, I am wasted in soul and body.
11My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.
12Because of all those who are against me, I have become a word of shame to my neighbours; a cause of shaking the head and a fear to my friends: those who saw me in the street went in flight from me.
13I have gone from men's minds and memory like a dead man; I am like a broken vessel.
