1. To the Overseer with stringed instruments. --An instruction, by David. Give ear, O God, [to] my prayer, And hide not from my supplication.
2. Attend to me, and answer me, I mourn in my meditation, and make a noise,
3. Because of the voice of an enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked, For they cause sorrow to move against me, And in anger they hate me.
4. My heart is pained within me, And terrors of death have fallen on me.
5. Fear and trembling come in to me, And horror doth cover me.
6. And I say, `Who doth give to me a pinion as a dove? I fly away and rest,
7. Lo, I move far off, I lodge in a wilderness. Selah.
8. I hasten escape for myself, From a rushing wind, from a whirlwind.
9. Swallow up, O Lord, divide their tongue, For I saw violence and strife in a city.
10. By day and by night they go round it, on its walls. Both iniquity and perverseness [are] in its midst,