⁶ Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer;
And attend to the voice of my supplications.
⁷ In the day of my trouble I will call upon You,
For You will answer me.

^8 (C)Among the gods there is none like You, O Lord;
Nor are there any works like Your works.
⁹ All nations whom You have made
Shall come and worship before You, O Lord,
And shall glorify Your name.
¹⁰ For You are great, and ^(D)do wondrous things;
^(E)You alone are God.

^11 (F)Teach me Your way, O Lord;
I will walk in Your truth;
^[c]Unite my heart to fear Your name.
¹² I will praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart,
And I will glorify Your name forevermore.
¹³ For great is Your mercy toward me,
And You have delivered my soul from the depths of ^[d]Sheol.

¹⁴ O God, the proud have risen against me,
And a mob of violent men have sought my life,
And have not set You before them.
¹⁵ But ^(G)You, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious,
Longsuffering and abundant in mercy and truth.

¹⁶ Oh, turn to me, and have mercy on me!
Give Your strength to Your servant,
And save the son of Your maidservant.
¹⁷ Show me a sign for good,
That those who hate me may see it and be ashamed,
Because You, Lord, have helped me and comforted me.

‘What is your mother? A lioness:
She lay down among the lions;
Among the young lions she nourished her cubs.
³ She brought up one of her cubs,
And ^(B)he became a young lion;
He learned to catch prey,
And he devoured men.
⁴ The nations also heard of him;
He was trapped in their pit,
And they brought him with chains to the land of ^(C)Egypt.

⁵ ‘When she saw that she waited, that her hope was lost,
She took ^(D)another of her cubs and made him a young lion.
^6 (E)He roved among the lions,
And ^(F)became a young lion;
He learned to catch prey;
He devoured men.
^7 [a]He knew their desolate places,
And laid waste their cities;
The land with its fullness was desolated
By the noise of his roaring.
^8 (G)Then the nations set against him from the provinces on every side,
And spread their net over him;
^(H)He was trapped in their pit.
^9 (I)They put him in a cage with ^[b]chains,
And brought him to the king of Babylon;
They brought him in nets,
That his voice should no longer be heard on ^(J)the mountains of Israel.

¹⁰ ‘Your mother was ^(K)like a vine in your ^[c]bloodline,
Planted by the waters,
^(L)Fruitful and full of branches
Because of many waters.
¹¹ She had strong branches for scepters of rulers.
^(M)She towered in stature above the thick branches,
And was seen in her height amid the ^[d]dense foliage.
¹² But she was ^(N)plucked up in fury,
She was cast down to the ground,
And the ^(O)east wind dried her fruit.
Her strong branches were broken and withered;
The fire consumed them.
¹³ And now she is planted in the wilderness,
In a dry and thirsty land.
^14 (P)Fire has come out from a rod of her branches
And devoured her fruit,
So that she has no strong branch—a scepter for ruling.’ ”