For the end, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, when he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Your great mercy; and according to the multitude of Your compassions, blot out my transgression.

Look upon me and have mercy upon me, after the manner of them that love Your name.

Look on me, hearken to me, O Lord my God: lighten my eyes, lest I sleep in death;

Look upon my enemies; for they have been multiplied, and they have hated me with unjust hatred.

Look upon my affliction, and rescue me; for I have not forgotten Your law.

Attend to my supplication, for I am brought very low; deliver me from them that persecute me; for they are stronger than I.

And now, O our God, the powerful, the great, the mighty, and the terrible, keeping Your covenant and Your mercy, let not all this trouble seem little in Your sight which has come upon us, and our kings, and our princes, and our priests, and our prophets, and our fathers, and upon all Your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria even to this day.

TETH. Her uncleanness is before her feet; she remembered not her last end; she has lowered her boasting [tone], there is none to comfort her. Behold, O Lord, my affliction, for the enemy has magnified himself.

CHAPH. All her people groan, seeking bread: they have given their desirable things for meat, to restore their soul: behold, Lord, and look; for she has become dishonored.

O Lord, You have brought up my soul from Hades, You have delivered me from [among] them that go down to the pit.

For You have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from sliding, that I should be well-pleasing before God in the land of the living.

For Your mercy is great toward me; and You have delivered my soul from the depths of hell.

Their soul abhorred all food; and they drew near to the gates of death.

The pangs of death compassed me; the dangers of hell found me; I found affliction and sorrow.

Then I called on the name of the Lord- O Lord, deliver my soul.

I said in the end of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave; I shall part with the remainder of my years.

Now there were six stone water jars standing there, according to the purification rites of the Jews, each holding two or three measures.