For the end, a Psalm of David.
2How long, O Lord, wilt thou forget me? for ever? how long wilt thou turn away thy face from me?
3How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrows in my heart daily? how long shall my enemy be exalted over me?
4Look on me, hearken to me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep in death;
5lest at any time mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him: my persecutors will exult if ever I should be moved.
6But I have hoped in thy mercy; my heart shall exult in thy salvation. I will sing to the Lord who has dealt bountifully with me, and I will sing psalms to the name of the Lord most high.
Psalm 12 (Hebrew/KJV numbering: Psalm 13) · Read in Kathisma 2 of the Psalter.
Text: The Septuagint Psalter, translated by Sir Lancelot C. L. Brenton (1851). Public domain.