1
Give hearing to my prayer, O God; and let not your ear be shut against my request.
2
Give thought to me, and let my prayer be answered: I have been made low in sorrow;
3
I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.
4
My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me.
5
Fear and shaking have come over me, with deep fear I am covered.
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