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[1] SAVE me, O God; for the waters are come near to engulf me.
[2] I sink in deep mire where there is no footing; I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
[3] I am weary of my crying; my throat is dry; mine eyes fail while I wait for God.
[4] They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty; then I restored that which I took lawfully.
[5] O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
[6] Let not them that trust in thee be ashamed through me, O LORD God of hosts; let not those that seek thee be dishonored through me, O God of Israel.
[7] Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame has 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 has made me courageous; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
[10] When I humbled 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 unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time; O God, in the multitude of thy mercy answer me, in the abundance 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 waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the well shut its mouth upon me.
[16] Answer me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness 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; answer me speedily.
[18] Draw near to my soul, and redeem it; deliver me because of mine enemies.
[19] Thou knowest my reproach and my shame, and my dishonour is spread before all mine adversaries.
[20] O thou, heal my broken heart and bind it; I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
[21] They gave me bitter herbs 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 reward, let it become a trap.
[23] Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their backs continually to bend.
[24] Pour out thine 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] The one which thou hast smitten, they have persecuted; they have added to the grief of him who is wounded.
[27] Add punishment of iniquity to their iniquity, that they may enter not into thy righteousness.
[28] Let them be blotted out of thy book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
[29] But I am poor and sorrowful; let thy salvation help me, O God.
[30] I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
[31] This shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that has horns and hoofs.
[32] The humble shall see this and be glad; and your heart shall live that seek God.
[33] For the LORD hears the poor, and despises not his prisoners.
[34] Let 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;
[36] His servants shall dwell in it and shall inherit it; they that love his name shall dwell therein.
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