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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 have 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 that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: those that would destroy me, [being] my enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored [that] which I did not take 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 reproach; shame has covered my face.
8 I have become a stranger to my brothers, and a foreigner to my own family.
9 For the passion of your family has consumed me; and the criticisms that you endured have now fallen on 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 you, O LORD [Yahweh], [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 upon me.
16 Hear me, O LORD [Yahweh]; 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 reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: my 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 gall 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 upon 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] whom you have smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom 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 [Yahweh] 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 [Yahweh] hears the poor, and despises not his prisoners.
34 Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moves 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 will inherit it: and they that love his name will dwell therein.