1. MY SPIRIT is broken, my days are spent (snuffed out); the grave is ready for me.
2. Surely there are mockers and mockery around me, and my eye dwells on their obstinacy, insults, and resistance.
3. Give me a pledge with Yourself [acknowledge my innocence before my death]; who is there that will give security for me?
4. But their hearts [Lord] You have closed to understanding; therefore You will not let them triumph [by giving them a verdict against me].
5. He who denounces his friends [in order to make them] a prey and get a share, the eyes of his children shall fail [to find food].
6. But He has made me a byword among the people, and they spit before my face.
7. My eye has grown dim because of grief, and all my members are [wasted away] like a shadow.
8. Upright men shall be astonished and appalled at this, and the innocent shall stir himself up against the godless and polluted.