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

To me {belongeth} vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in {due} time: for the day of their calamity {is} at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.

Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.

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

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

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.

Hold up my goings in thy paths, {that} my footsteps slip not. {slip...: Heb. be not moved}

If indeed ye will magnify {yourselves} against me, and plead against me my reproach:

But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.

Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify {themselves} against me.

Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; {and} those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: {neither} let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause. {wrongfully: Heb. falsely}

The LORD hath done {that} which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused {thine} enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.

The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify {themselves} against Judah.

They have heard that I sigh: {there is} none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done {it}: thou wilt bring the day {that} thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me. {called: or, proclaimed}

For {it was} not an enemy {that} reproached me; then I could have borne {it}: neither {was it} he that hated me {that} did magnify {himself} against me; then I would have hid myself from him: