5. For You are my hope, Lord God,my confidence from my youth.
6. I have leaned on You from birth;You took me from my mother’s womb. My praise is always about You.
7. I have become an ominous sign to many,but You are my strong refuge.
8. My mouth is full of praiseand honor to You all day long.
9. Don’t discard me in my old age;as my strength fails, do not abandon me.
10. For my enemies talk about me,and those who spy on me plot together,
11. saying, “God has abandoned him;chase him and catch him,for there is no one to rescue him.”