| 1 | To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are 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 | They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: they that would destroy me, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away. |
| 5 | O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee. |
| 6 | Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel. |
| 7 | Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face. |
| 8 | I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to my mother's children. |
| 9 | For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee have fallen upon me. |
| 10 | When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. |
| 11 | I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them. |
| 12 | They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards. |
| 13 | But as for me, my prayer is to thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy 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 water-flood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. |
| 16 | Hear me, O LORD; for thy loving-kindness is good: turn to me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies. |
| 17 | And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily. |
| 18 | Draw nigh to my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of my enemies. |
| 19 | Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: my adversaries are all before thee. |
| 20 | Reproach hath 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 gall for my food; 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 thy indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them. |
| 25 | Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents. |
| 26 | For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded. |
| 27 | Add iniquity to their iniquity: and let them not come into thy 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 thy 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 bullock that hath horns and hoofs. |
| 32 | The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God. |
| 33 | For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners. |
| 34 | Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein. |
| 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 shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein. |