I am become a reproach among all my enemies, and very much to my neighbours; and a fear to my acquaintance.
They that saw me without fled from me.
I am forgotten as one dead from the heart. I am become as a vessel that is destroyed.
For I have heard the blame of many that dwell round about.
Whilst they assembled together against me, they consulted to take away my life.
Oblívius factus sum tamquam mórtuus a corde:
factus sum tamquam vas pérditum.
Quóniam audívi vituperatiónem multórum commorántium in circúitu:
cum convenírent advérsum me,
ut tollerent ánimam meam consiliáti sunt.
Ego autem in te sperávi, Dómine:
dixi: Deus meus es tu.
In mánibus tuis sortes meæ:
erúe me de manu inimicórum meórum, et a persequéntibus me.
Illústra fáciem tuam super servum tuum:
sálvum me fac in misericórdia tua.