1 ¶ Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto 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 T hose 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, thou knowest my foolishness, and my guiltiness is not hid from thee.

6 D o not let those that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of the hosts, be ashamed for my sake; do not let those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.

7 B ecause for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face.

8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren and an alien unto my mother’s sons.

9 F or the zeal of thy house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

10 W hen I wept with fasting of my soul, thou hast been a reproach unto me.

11 I made sackcloth also my garment, and I became a proverb to them.

12 T hey that sat in the gate spoke against me, and I was the song of the drunkards.

13 ¶ But I corrected my prayer unto thee, O LORD, in the time of thy good pleasure; O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy saving health.

14 D eliver me out of the mire, and let me not drown; let me be delivered from those that hate me and out of the deep waters.

15 L et not the violent force of the waters overcome me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

16 H ear me, O LORD, for thy mercy is perceptible, look upon me according to the multitude of thy acts of compassion

17 A nd hide not thy face from thy slave, for I am in trouble; hear me speedily.

18 D raw near unto my soul and redeem it; deliver me because of my enemies.

19 T hou hast known my reproach and my shame and my dishonour; my adversaries are all before thee.

20 R eproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness, and I looked for some to take pity, but there was no one, and for comforters, but I found none.

21 T hey also gave me 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 prosperity, let it become a stumbling block.

23 L et their eyes be darkened that they see not and make their loins continually to shake.

24 P our out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.

25 L et their palace be desolate, and let no one dwell in their tents.

26 F or they persecute him whom thou hast smitten, and they boast that thou hast slain their enemies.

27 A dd iniquity unto their iniquity, and let them not come into thy righteousness.

28 L et them be blotted out of the book of the living and not be written with the righteous.

29 B ut I am poor and sorrowful; let thy saving health, O God, set me up on high.

30 ¶ I will praise the name of God with a song and will magnify him with praises.

31 T his also shall please the LORD better than the sacrifice of an ox or bullock that struggles with horns and hoofs.

32 T he humble shall see this and be glad; seek God and thy heart shall live.

33 F or the LORD hears the destitute and does not despise his prisoners.

34 L et the heavens and the earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moves in them.

35 F or God will protect Zion and will rebuild the cities of Judah; they shall dwell there and inherit it.

36 T he seed of his slaves shall inherit it, and those that love his name shall dwell therein.