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¹ Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck.
² I sink in deep mire, Where there is no standing; I have come into deep waters, Where the floods overflow me.
³ I am weary with my crying; My throat is dry; My eyes fail while I wait for my God.
⁴ Those who hate me without a cause Are more than the hairs of my head; They are mighty who would destroy me, Being my enemies wrongfully; Though I have stolen nothing, I still must restore it.
⁵ O God, You know my foolishness; And my sins are not hidden from You.
⁶ Let not those who wait for You, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed because of me; Let not those who seek You be confounded because of me, O God of Israel.
⁷ Because for Your sake I have borne reproach; Shame has covered my face.
⁸ I have become a stranger to my brothers, And an alien to my mother's children;
⁹ Because zeal for Your house has eaten me up, And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me.
¹⁰ When I wept and chastened my soul with fasting, That became my reproach.
¹¹ I also made sackcloth my garment; I became a byword to them.
¹² Those who sit in the gate speak against me, And I am the song of the drunkards.
¹³ But as for me, my prayer is to You, O LORD, in the acceptable time; O God, in the multitude of Your mercy, Hear me in the truth of Your salvation.
¹⁴ Deliver me out of the mire, And let me not sink; Let me be delivered from those who hate me, And out of the deep waters.
¹⁵ Let not the floodwater overflow me, Nor let the deep swallow me up; And let not the pit shut its mouth on me.
¹⁶ Hear me, O LORD, for Your lovingkindness is good; Turn to me according to the multitude of Your tender mercies.
¹⁷ And do not hide Your face from Your servant, For I am in trouble; Hear me speedily.
¹⁸ Draw near to my soul, and redeem it; Deliver me because of my enemies.
¹⁹ You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor; My adversaries are all before You.
²⁰ Reproach has broken my heart, And I am full of heaviness; I looked for someone to take pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.
²¹ They also gave me gall for my food, And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
²² Let their table become a snare before them, And their well-being a trap.
²³ Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see; And make their loins shake continually.
²⁴ Pour out Your indignation upon them, And let Your wrathful anger take hold of them.
²⁵ Let their dwelling place be desolate; Let no one live in their tents.
²⁶ For they persecute the ones You have struck, And talk of the grief of those You have wounded.
²⁷ Add iniquity to their iniquity, And let them not come into Your righteousness.
²⁸ Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, And not be written with the righteous.
²⁹ But I am poor and sorrowful; Let Your salvation, O God, set me up on high.
³⁰ I will praise the name of God with a song, And will magnify Him with thanksgiving.
³¹ This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bull, Which has horns and hooves.
³² The humble shall see this and be glad; And you who seek God, your hearts shall live.
³³ For the LORD hears the poor, And does not despise His prisoners.
³⁴ Let heaven and earth praise Him, The seas and everything that moves in them.
³⁵ For God will save Zion And build the cities of Judah, That they may dwell there and possess it.
³⁶ Also, the descendants of His servants shall inherit it, And those who love His name shall dwell in it.