<p class="poetry">I keep your precepts and rules,p> <p class="poetry">for you are aware of everything I do.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">O Lord, you understand my heart&#8217;s desire;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">my groaning is not hidden from you.p>

<p class="poetry">You know how I am insulted, humiliated and disgraced;p> <p class="poetry">you can see all my enemies.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Look, you make my days short-lived,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and my life span is nothing from your perspective.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="psasuper">A song, a psalm written by the Korahites; for the music director; according to the <i>machalath-leannothi> style;<n id="2" /> a well-written song<n id="3" /> by Heman the Ezrachite.p> <p class="poetry">O <sc>Lordsc> God who delivers me!<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">By day I cry outp> <p class="poetry">and at night I pray before you.<n id="5" />p>