1. Give ear to my prayer, O God and hide not thyself from my supplication.
2. Attend unto me, and answer me: I wander about in my plaint, and I moan aloud,
3. Because of the voice of the enemy; because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in anger they persecute me.
4. My heart is writhing within me, and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
5. Fear and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
6. And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away, and be at rest;
7. Behold, I would flee afar off, I would lodge in the wilderness; Selah;
8. I would hasten my escape from the stormy wind, from the tempest.
9. Swallow them up, Lord; divide their tongue: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
10. Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof; and iniquity and mischief are in the midst of it.
11. Perversities are in the midst thereof; and oppression and deceit depart not from its streets.
12. For it is not an enemy that hath reproached me--then could I have borne it; neither is it he that hateth me that hath magnified himself against me--then would I have hidden myself from him;