¹⁵³ <RESH> O see my trouble, and be my saviour; for I keep your law in my mind,

¹ Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame.

¹⁶ I will have delight in your rules; I will not let your word go out of my mind.

²⁰ Look! O Lord, see to whom you have done this! Are the women to take as their food the fruit of their bodies, the children who are folded in their arms? are the priest and the prophet to be put to death in the holy place of the Lord?

¹ My son, keep my teaching in your memory, and my rules in your heart:

¹⁷⁶ I have gone out of the way like a wandering sheep; make search for your servant; for I keep your teachings ever in mind.

¹⁵⁹ See how great is my love for your orders: give me life, O Lord, in keeping with your mercy.

¹⁴¹ I am small and of no account; but I keep your orders in mind.

¹⁰⁹ My soul is ever in danger; but I still keep the memory of your law.

⁹⁸ Your teaching has made me wiser than my haters: for it is mine for ever.

¹⁹ See how those who are against me are increased, for bitter is their hate of me.

³ Let my voice come before you, and give me an answer, O Lord my God; let your light be shining on me, so that the sleep of death may not overtake me;

⁴ And he who is against me may not say, I have overcome him; and those who are troubling me may not be glad when I am moved.

¹³ Have mercy on me, O Lord, and see how I am troubled by my haters; let me be lifted up from the doors of death;

³² And now, our God, the great, the strong, the God who is to be feared, who keeps faith and mercy, let not all this trouble seem small to you, which has come on us, and on our kings and our rulers and on our priests and our prophets and our fathers and on all your people from the time of the kings of Assyria till this day.

⁷ And God said, Truly, I have seen the grief of my people in Egypt, and their cry because of their cruel masters has come to my ears; for I have knowledge of their sorrows;

⁸ And I have come down to take them out of the hands of the Egyptians, guiding them out of that land into a good land and wide, into a land flowing with milk and honey; into the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.