¹³ Have mercy on me, Yahweh. See my affliction by those who hate me, And lift me up from the gates of death;

¹³ For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

³ Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

⁶ Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews' manner of purifying, containing two or three metretes{2 to 3 metretes is about 20 to 30 U. S. Gallons, 16 to 25 imperial gallons, or 75 to 115 litres.} apiece.

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

⁹ Her filthiness was in her skirts; she didn't remember her latter end; Therefore is she come down wonderfully; she has no comforter: See, Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has 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 Listen to my cry, For I am in desperate need. Deliver me from my persecutors, For they are stronger than me.

¹⁵³ Consider my affliction, and deliver me, For I don't forget your law.

¹³² Turn to me, and have mercy on me, As you always do to those who love your name.

³ The cords of death surrounded me, The pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.

⁴ Then called I on the name of Yahweh: "Yahweh, I beg you, deliver my soul."

¹⁸ Their soul abhors all kinds of food. They draw near to the gates of death.

¹³ For you have delivered my soul from death, And prevented my feet from falling, That I may walk before God in the light of the living.

¹ > Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

¹⁹ But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.

¹⁹ Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.

³ Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;

³² Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keep covenant and loving kindness, don't let all the travail seem little before you, that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.