9. But you are the one who pulled me from the womb,placing me safely at my mother’s breasts.
10. I was thrown on you from birth;you’ve been my Godsince I was in my mother’s womb.
11. Please don’t be far from me,because trouble is nearand there’s no one to help.
12. Many bulls surround me;mighty bulls from Bashan encircle me.
13. They open their mouths at melike a lion ripping and roaring!
14. I’m poured out like water.All my bones have fallen apart.My heart is like wax;it melts inside me.
15. My strength is dried uplike a piece of broken pottery.My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth;you’ve set me down in the dirt of death.
16. Dogs surround me;a pack of evil people circle me like a lion—oh, my poor hands and feet!