Catholic Public Domain Version
"But as for you, Lord, O Lord: act on my behalf for your name’s sake. For your mercy is sweet. "
— Psalms 108:21, Catholic Public Domain Version
“But thou, O Lord, do with me for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is sweet. Do thou deliver me,”
And he loved a curse, and it came to him. And he was unwilling to have a blessing, and it went far from him. And he clothed himself with curses like a garment, and it entered his inner self like water, and it entered his bones like oil.
May it be to him like a garment that covers him, and like a belt that always cinches him.
This is the work of those who detract me with the Lord and who speak evils against my soul.
But as for you, Lord, O Lord: act on my behalf for your name’s sake. For your mercy is sweet.
Free me, for I am destitute and poor, and my heart has been disquieted within me.
I have been taken away like a shadow when it declines, and I have been shaken off like locusts.
My knees have been weakened by fasting, and my flesh has been replaced by oil.