2. The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and you will not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.
3. The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: you will restore his bed in his sickness.
4. I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against you.
5. My enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?
6. And if he comes to see me, he speaks vanity: his heart gathers iniquity to itself; when he goes abroad, he tells it.
7. All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.
8. An evil disease, say they, clings close unto him: and now that he lies down he shall rise up no more.