27:7 Hear me, 1 O Lord, when I cry out!
Have mercy on me and answer me!
27:8 My heart tells me to pray to you, 2
and I do pray to you, O Lord. 3
27:9 Do not reject me! 4
Do not push your servant away in anger!
You are my deliverer! 5
Do not forsake or abandon me,
O God who vindicates me!
27:10 Even if my father and mother abandoned me, 6
the Lord would take me in. 7
27:11 Teach me how you want me to live; 8
lead me along a level path 9 because of those who wait to ambush me! 10
27:12 Do not turn me over to my enemies, 11
for false witnesses who want to destroy me testify against me. 12
27:13 Where would I be if I did not believe I would experience
the Lord’s favor in the land of the living? 13