¹ Save me, O God; for the waters have come in to my soul. ² I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. ³ I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: my eyes fail while I wait for my God. ⁴ Those hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: Those would destroy me, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away. ⁵ O God, you know my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from you. ⁶ Let not them that wait on you, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek you be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel. ⁷ Because for your sake I have borne rebuke shame has covered my face. ⁸ I am become a stranger to my brothers, and an alien to my mother's children. ⁹ For the zeal of your house has eaten me up and the rebukes of them that reproached you are fallen on me. ¹⁰ When I wept, and disciplined my soul with fasting, that was to my rebuke. ¹¹ I made sackcloth also my garment and I became a proverb to them. ¹² Those sit in the gate speak against me and I was the song of the drunkards . ¹³ But as for me, my prayer is to you, O LORD, in an 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 them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. ¹⁵ Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her 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 hide not 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 have known my rebuke, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries [are] all before you. ²⁰ Reproach has broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. ²¹ They gave me also bitterness for my meat and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. ²² Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. ²³ Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake. ²⁴ Pour out your indignation on them, and let your wrathful anger take hold of them. ²⁵ Let their habitation be desolate and let none dwell in their tents. ²⁶ For they persecute him who you have smitten and they talk to the grief of those who 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 will please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that has horns and hoofs. ³² The humble will see this, and be glad: and your heart will live that seek God. ³³ For the LORD hears the poor, and despises not his prisoners. ³⁴ Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moves in it. ³⁵ For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession. ³⁶ The seed also of his servants will inherit it: and those love his name will dwell in it.