1 To the Overseer with stringed instruments. -- An  instruction, by David. Give ear, O God, [to] my prayer, And  hide not from my supplication.
         
                                
                        2 Attend to me, and answer me, I mourn in my meditation, and  make a noise,
         
                                
                        3 Because of the voice of an enemy, Because of the oppression  of the wicked, For they cause sorrow to move against me, And in  anger they hate me.
         
                                
                        4 My heart is pained within me, And terrors of death have  fallen on me.
         
                                
                        5 Fear and trembling come in to me, And horror doth cover me.
         
                                
                        6 And I say, `Who doth give to me a pinion as a dove? I fly  away and rest,
         
                                
                        7 Lo, I move far off, I lodge in a wilderness. Selah.