5 For You are my hope, Lord God,my confidence from my youth.
6 I have leaned on You from birth;You took me from my mother’s womb. My praise is always about You.
7 I have become an ominous sign to many,but You are my strong refuge.
8 My mouth is full of praiseand honor to You all day long.
9 Don’t discard me in my old age;as my strength fails, do not abandon me.
10 For my enemies talk about me,and those who spy on me plot together,
11 saying, “God has abandoned him;chase him and catch him,for there is no one to rescue him.”