Psalms 9:13

O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell. hell: or, grave

Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name. as thou...: Heb. according to the custom toward those, etc

[To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.] Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.

But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied. are lively...: Heb. being living, are strong

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. gat...: Heb. found me Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.

Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.

Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.

I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

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.

Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;