¹³ Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah; Behold my affliction `which I suffer' of them that hate me, Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death;

¹³ For great is thy lovingkindness toward me; And thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

³ O Jehovah, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol; Thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

⁶ Now there were six waterpots of stone set there after the Jews' manner of purifying, containing two or three firkins apiece.

¹¹ All her people sigh, they seek bread; They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul: See, O Jehovah, and behold; for I am become abject.

⁹ Her filthiness was in her skirts; she remembered not her latter end; Therefore is she come down wonderfully; she hath no comforter: Behold, O Jehovah, my affliction; for the enemy hath magnified himself.

¹⁰ I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

⁶ Attend unto my cry; For I am brought very low: Deliver me from my persecutors; For they are stronger than I.

¹⁵³ RESH. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me; For I do not forget thy law.

¹³² Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me, As thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.

³ The cords of death compassed me, And the pains of Sheol gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

⁴ Then called I upon the name of Jehovah: O Jehovah, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.

¹⁸ Their soul abhorreth all manner of food; And they draw near unto the gates of death.

¹³ For thou hast delivered my soul from death: `Hast thou' not `delivered' my feet from falling, That I may walk before God In the light of the living? Psalm 57 For the Chief Musician; `set to' Al-tash-heth. `A Psalm' of David. Michtam; when he fled from Saul, in the cave.

¹ Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

¹⁹ But mine enemies are lively, `and' are strong; And they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

¹⁹ Consider mine enemies, for they are many; And they hate me with cruel hatred.

³ Consider `and' answer me, O Jehovah my God: Lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the `sleep of' death;

³² Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and lovingkindness, let not all the travail 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.