4 ^aMan is like a breath;
^bHis days are like a passing shadow. ‡

5 ^aBow down Your heavens, O Lord, and come down;
^bTouch the mountains, and they shall smoke. ‡

7 Stretch out Your hand from above;
Rescue me and deliver me out of great waters,
From the hand of foreigners,

8 Whose mouth ^aspeaks lying words,
And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood. ‡