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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:
mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

4 — They that hate me without a cause
are more than the hairs of mine head:
they that would destroy me,
being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty:
then I restored that which I took not away.

5 — O God, thou knowest my foolishness;
and my sins are not hid from thee.

6 — Let not them that wait on thee,
O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed for my sake:
let not those that seek thee
be confounded for my sake,
O God of Israel.

7 — Because for thy sake I have borne reproach;
shame hath covered my face.

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

9 — For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up;
and the reproaches of them that reproached thee
are fallen upon 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 unto thee, O Lord,
in an acceptable time:
O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me,
in the truth 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 pit shut her mouth upon me.

16 — Hear me, O Lord;
for thy lovingkindness is good:
turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.

17 — And hide not thy face from thy servant;
for I am in trouble:
hear me speedily.

18 — Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it:
deliver me because of mine enemies.

19 — Thou hast known my reproach,
and my shame, and my dishonour:
mine adversaries are all before thee.

20 — Reproach hath 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 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 — For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten;
and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.

27 — Add iniquity unto their iniquity:
and let them not come into thy 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 thy 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 shall please the Lord
better than an ox or bullock
that hath horns and hoofs.

32 — The humble shall see this, and be glad:
and your heart shall live that seek God.

33 — For the Lord heareth the poor,
and despiseth not his prisoners.

34 — Let the heaven and earth praise him,
the seas, and every thing that moveth 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 shall inherit it:
and they that love his name shall dwell therein.