1. Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in your faithfulness answer me, and in your righteousness.
2. And enter not into judgment with your servant: for in your sight shall no man living be justified.
3. For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has smitten my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
4. Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.