Psalms 143:3

I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. from: or, by Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

[Shiggaion of David, which he sang unto the LORD, concerning the words of Cush the Benjamite.] O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me: words: or, business Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver. none...: Heb. not a deliverer

Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.

I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. a broken...: Heb. a vessel that perisheth 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.

Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.

And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten shekels of silver, and a girdle.

He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.

And Abner said again to Asahel, Turn thee aside from following me: wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how then should I hold up my face to Joab thy brother?

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

Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.

From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about. oppress: Heb. waste my...: Heb. my enemies against the soul They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly. They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth; Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places. Like...: Heb. The likeness of him (that is, of every one of them) is as a lion that desireth to ravin lurking: Heb. sitting Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword: disappoint...: Heb. prevent his face which is: or, by

For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.