Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD {shall be} a light unto me.

{When} I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart {is} faint in me. {in: Heb. upon}

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, {which} refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, {and as} waters {that} fail? {fail: Heb. be not sure?}

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.

For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

I looked on {my} right hand, and beheld, but {there was} no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul. {I looked...: or, Look on the right hand, and see} {failed...: Heb. perished from me} {cared...: Heb. sought after}

Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

Behold, I go forward, but he {is} not {there}; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:

All his days also he eateth in darkness, and {he hath} much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

If I be wicked, woe unto me; and {if} I be righteous, {yet} will I not lift up my head. {I am} full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;

{Am} I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?

If {I speak} of strength, lo, {he is} strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time {to plead}?

O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?

Wherefore the king said unto me, Why {is} thy countenance sad, seeing thou {art} not sick? this {is} nothing {else} but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,

If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort {myself}:

If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)

I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Remember this, {that} the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and {that} the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David's enemy continually.

That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.

Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending {it} in pieces, while {there is} none to deliver. {none...: Heb. not a deliverer}

Her filthiness {is} in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified {himself}.

From the wicked that oppress me, {from} my deadly enemies, {who} compass me about. {oppress: Heb. waste} {my...: Heb. my enemies against the soul}

For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore the LORD reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me this day.

When I remember these {things}, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.

But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.

Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous. {grievous...: Heb. a hard thing}

And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou {wilt}.

O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them. {O thou...: or, The destructions of the enemy are come to a perpetual end: and their cities hast thou destroyed, etc}

When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.

And Esther said, The adversary and enemy {is} this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen. {The adversary: Heb. The man adversary} {before: or, at the presence of}

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. {ordained: Heb. founded}

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. {gat...: Heb. found me}

To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress. {oppress: or, terrify}

Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted. {sore: Heb. hand}

For I {am} ready to halt, and my sorrow {is} continually before me. {to halt: Heb. for halting}

All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, {saying}, {shoot...: Heb. open}

When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.

Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.

O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.

For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.