2. O my God, I cry in the day-time, but thou answerest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
3. But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
4. Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
5. They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not ashamed.
6. But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
7. All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
8. Commit thyself unto the LORD; let him deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighteth in him.
9. But thou art he that took me out the womb: thou didst make me trust when I was upon my mother's breasts.