Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.

Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

RESH. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.

Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.

Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.

Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.

All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.

O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.

Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.

I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.