| 1 | Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck. |
| 2 | I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me. |
| 3 | I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God. |
| 4 | More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; many are those who would destroy me, my enemies who accuse me falsely. What I did not steal must I now restore? |
| 5 | O God, you know my folly; the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you. |
| 6 | Do not let those who hope in you be put to shame because of me, O Lord GOD of hosts; do not let those who seek you be dishonored because of me, O God of Israel. |
| 7 | It is for your sake that I have borne reproach, that shame has covered my face. |
| 8 | I have become a stranger to my kindred, an alien to my mother’s children. |
| 9 | It is zeal for your house that has consumed me; the insults of those who insult you have fallen on me. |
| 10 | When I humbled my soul with fasting, they insulted me for doing so. |
| 11 | When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them. |
| 12 | I am the subject of gossip for those who sit in the gate, and the drunkards make songs about me. |
| 13 | But as for me, my prayer is to you, O LORD. At an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of your steadfast love, answer me. With your faithful help |
| 14 | rescue me from sinking in the mire; let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters. |
| 15 | Do not let the flood sweep over me, or the deep swallow me up, or the Pit close its mouth over me. |
| 16 | Answer me, O LORD, for your steadfast love is good; according to your abundant mercy, turn to me. |
| 17 | Do not hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress — make haste to answer me. |
| 18 | Draw near to me, redeem me, set me free because of my enemies. |
| 19 | You know the insults I receive, and my shame and dishonor; my foes are all known to you. |
| 20 | Insults have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. |
| 21 | They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. |
| 22 | Let their table be a trap for them, a snare for their allies. |
| 23 | Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and make their loins tremble continually. |
| 24 | Pour out your indignation upon them, and let your burning anger overtake them. |
| 25 | May their camp be a desolation; let no one live in their tents. |
| 26 | For they persecute those whom you have struck down, and those whom you have wounded, they attack still more. |
| 27 | Add guilt to their guilt; may they have no acquittal from you. |
| 28 | Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; let them not be enrolled among the righteous. |
| 29 | But I am lowly and in pain; let your salvation, O God, protect me. |
| 30 | I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him with thanksgiving. |
| 31 | This will please the LORD more than an ox or a bull with horns and hoofs. |
| 32 | Let the oppressed see it and be glad; you who seek God, let your hearts revive. |
| 33 | For the LORD hears the needy, and does not despise his own that are in bonds. |
| 34 | Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves in them. |
| 35 | For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah; and his servants shall live there and possess it; |
| 36 | the children of his servants shall inherit it, and those who love his name shall live in it. |