1Save me, O God: for the waters are entered even to my soul.
2I stick fast in the deep mire, where no stay is: I am come into deep waters, and the streams run over me.
3I am weary of crying: my throat is dry: mine eyes fail, while I wait for my God.
4They that hate me without a cause, are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, and are mine enemies falsely, are mighty, so that I restored that which I took not.
5O God, thou knowest my foolishness, and my faults are not hid from thee.
6Let not them that trust in thee, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed for me: let not those that seek thee, be confounded through me, O God of Israel.
7For thy sake have I suffered reproof: shame hath covered my face.
8I am become a stranger unto my brethren, even an alien unto my mother’s sons.
9For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me, and the rebukes of them that rebuked thee, are fallen upon me.
10I wept and my soul fasted, but that was to my reproof.
11I put on a sack also: and I became a proverb unto them.
12They that sat in the gate, spake of me, and the drunkards sang of me.
13But Lord, I make my prayer unto thee in an acceptable time, even in the multitude of thy mercy: O God, hear me in the truth of thy salvation.
14Deliver me out of the mire, that I sink not: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
15Let not the water flood drown me, neither let the deep swallow me up: and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
16Hear me, O Lord, for thy loving-kindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
17And hide not thy face from thy servant, for I am in trouble; make haste and hear me.
18Draw near unto my soul and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.
19Thou hast known my reproof and my shame, and my dishonor: all mine adversaries are before thee.
20Rebuke hath broken mine heart, and I am full of heaviness, and I looked for some to have pity on me, but there was none: and for comforters, but I found none.
21For they gave me gall in my meat, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22Let their table be a snare before them, and their prosperity their ruin.
23Let their eyes be blinded that they see not: and make their loins always to tremble.
24Pour out thine anger upon them, and let thy wrathful displeasure take them.
25Let their habitation be void, and let none dwell in their tents.
26For they persecute him, whom thou hast smitten: and they add unto the sorrow of them, whom thou hast wounded.
27Lay iniquity upon their iniquity, and let them not come into thy righteousness.
28Let them be put out of the book of life, neither let them be written with the righteous.
29When I am poor and in heaviness, thine help, O God, shall exalt me.
30I will praise the Name of God with a song, and magnify him with thanksgiving.
31This also shall please the Lord better than a young bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
32The humble shall see this, and they that seek God shall be glad, and your heart shall live.
33For the Lord heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
34Let heaven and earth praise him: the seas and all that moveth in them.
35For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah, that men may dwell there and have it in possession.
36The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.