1. Give ear, O God, to my prayer, and do not hide yourself from my plea.
2. Attend to me and answer me. I am restless in my lamenting and I groan,
3. because of the voice of an enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked, because they bring down evil on me, and in anger they hold a grudge against me.
4. My heart trembles within me, and deathly terrors fall on me.
5. Fear and trembling come on me, and horror overwhelms me.
6. So I say, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove. I would fly away and be at rest.