Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: [but] I will meditate in thy precepts.
Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and those that have known thy testimonies.
Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.
CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: [but] I hope in thy word.
Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; [yet] do I not forget thy statutes.
How many [are] the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?
The proud have digged pits for me, which [are] not after thy law.
All thy commandments [are] faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.
They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.
