Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress: Psalm 31:9-16

Psalm 31:9-16

Revised Standard Version

(RSV)

 

 

 

9 Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress;

    my eye is wasted from grief,

my soul and my body also.

10 For my life is spent with sorrow,

    and my years with sighing;

my strength fails because of my misery,

and my bones waste away.

 

11 I am the scorn of all my adversaries,

a horror to my neighbors,

an object of dread to my acquaintances;

those who see me in the street flee from me.

12 I have passed out of mind like one who is dead;

    I have become like a broken vessel.

13 Yea, I hear the whispering of many—

terror on every side!—

as they scheme together against me,

    as they plot to take my life.

 

14 But I trust in thee, O Lord,

    I say, “Thou art my God.”

15 My times are in thy hand;

deliver me from the hand of my enemies and persecutors!

16 Let thy face shine on thy servant;

save me in thy steadfast love!