1. Unto the end. In verses, the understanding of David.
2. Listen to my prayer, O God, and despise not my supplication.
3. Be attentive to me, and heed me. I have been grieved in my training, and I have been disturbed
4. at the voice of the adversary and at the tribulation of the sinner. For they have diverted iniquities toward me, and they have been harassing me with rage.
5. My heart has become disturbed within me, and the dread of death has fallen over me.
6. Fear and trembling have overwhelmed me, and darkness has buried me.
7. And I said, "Who will give me wings like the dove, so that I may fly away and take rest?"
8. Behold, I have fled far away, and I linger in solitude.