i1 [To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.] i0 par Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness; according to the multitude of Your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

Look upon me and be merciful unto me with justice, for I love Your name.

Consider and answer me, O Jehovah my God; enlighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

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

RESH: Look upon my affliction and rescue me, for I do not forget Your Law.

Give attention to my cry, for I am brought very low; rescue me from my persecutors, for they are stronger than I.

Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and awesome Mighty God, who keeps covenant and mercy: Do not let all the trouble seem small before You that has found us, our kings and our rulers, our priests and our prophets, our fathers and all Your people, since the days of the kings of Assyria until this day.

Her uncleanness is in her skirts; she did not remember her end, and her downfall was extraordinary. There is no comforter for her. O Jehovah, behold my affliction, for the enemy has magnified himself.

All her people sigh; they seek bread. They have given their desirable things for food to restore life. See, O Jehovah, and look upon me, for I have become vile.

O Jehovah, You have brought up my soul from Sheol; You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the Pit.

for You have delivered my soul from death. Have You not kept my feet from falling, so that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

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

Their soul abhors all kinds of food, and they draw near to the gates of death.

The bands of death have encompassed me, and the distress of Sheol has fallen upon me; I found trouble and sorrow.

Then I called upon the name of Jehovah: O Jehovah, I beseech You, deliver my soul!

I said at the end of of my days, I shall go to the gates of Sheol; I am deprived of the rest of my years.

Now there were set there six stone waterpots, according to the manner of purification of the Jews, containing two or three measures each.