I keep your precepts and rules, for you are aware of everything I do.

O Lord, you understand my heart’s desire; my groaning is not hidden from you.

You know how I am insulted, humiliated and disgraced; you can see all my enemies.

Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.

A song, a psalm written by the Korahites; for the music director; according to the machalath-leannoth style; a well-written song by Heman the Ezrachite. O Lord God who delivers me! By day I cry out and at night I pray before you.