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[For the end, a Psalm of David, for alternate strains.]
[1] Save me, O God; for the waters have come in to my soul.
[2] I am stuck fast in deep mire, and there is no standing: I am come in to the depths of the sea, and a storm has overwhelmed me.
[3] I am weary of crying, my throat has become hoarse; mine eyes have failed by my waiting on my God.
[4] They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: my enemies that persecute me unrighteously are strengthened: then I restored that which I took not away.
[5] O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my transgressions are not hidden from thee.
[6] Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord of hosts, be ashamed on my account: let not them that seek thee, be ashamed on my account, O God of Israel.
[7] For I have suffered reproach for thy sake; shame has covered my face.
[8] I became strange to my brethren, and a stranger to my mother's children.
[9] For the zeal of thine house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
[10] And I bowed down my soul with fasting, and that was made my reproach.
[11] And I put on sackcloth for my covering; and I became a proverb to them.
[12] They that sit in the gate talked against me, and they that drank wine sang against me.
[13] But I will cry to thee, O Lord, in my prayer; O God, it is a propitious time: in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
[14] Save me from the mire, that I stick not in it: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and from the deep waters.
[15] Let not the waterflood drown me, nor let the deep swallow me up; neither let the well shut its mouth upon me.
[16] Hear me, O Lord; for thy mercy is good: according to the multitude of thy compassions look upon me.
[17] And turn not away thy face from thy servant; for I am afflicted: hear me speedily.
[18] Draw nigh to my soul and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.
[19] For thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my confusion; all that afflict me are before thee.
[20] My soul has waited for reproach and misery; and I waited for one to grieve with me, but there was none; and for one to comfort me, but I found none.
[21] They gave me also gall for my food, and made me drink vinegar for my thirst.
[22] Let their table before them be for a snare, and for a recompense, and for a stumbling-block.
[23] Let their eyes be darkened that they should not see; and bow down their back continually.
[24] Pour out thy wrath upon them, and let the fury of thine anger take hold on them.
[25] Let their habitation be made desolate; and let there be no inhabitant in their tents:
[26] Because they persecuted him whom thou hast smitten; and they have added to the grief of my wounds.
[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 let them not be written with the righteous.
[29] I am poor and sorrowful; but the salvation of thy countenance has helped me.
[30] I will praise the name of my God with a song, I will magnify him with praise;
[31] and this shall please God more than a young calf having horns and hoofs.
[32] Let the poor see and rejoice; seek the Lord diligently, and ye shall live.
[33] For the Lord hears the poor, and does not set at nought his fettered ones.
[34] Let the heavens and the earth raise him, the sea, and all things moving in them.
[35] For God will save Sion, and the cities of Judea shall be built; and men shall dwell there, and inherit it.
[36] And the seed of his servants shall possess it, and they that love his name shall dwell therein.
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