1. To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David. Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.
2. Attend to me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;
3. Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
4. My heart is severely pained within me: and the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
5. Fearfulness and trembling have come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
6. And I said, O that I had wings like a dove! for then I would fly away, and be at rest.
7. Lo, then I would wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.
8. I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
9. Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
10. Day and night they go about it upon its walls: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.
11. Wickedness is in the midst of it: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
12. For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that magnified himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him: