[1] Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck. [2] I sink in deep mire, Where there is no standing; I have come into deep waters, Where the floods overflow me. [3] I am weary with my crying; My throat is dry; My eyes fail while I wait for my God. [4] Those who hate me without a cause Are more than the hairs of my head; They are mighty who would destroy me, Being my enemies wrongfully; Though I have stolen nothing, I still must restore it. [5] O God, You know my foolishness; And my sins are not hidden from You. [6] Let not those who wait for You, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed because of me; Let not those who seek You be confounded because of me, O God of Israel. [7] Because for Your sake I have borne reproach; Shame has covered my face. [8] I have become a stranger to my brothers, And an alien to my mother’s children; [9] Because zeal for Your house has eaten me up, And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me. [10] When I wept and chastened my soul with fasting, That became my reproach. [11] I also made sackcloth my garment; I became a byword to them. [12] Those who sit in the gate speak against me, And I am the song of the drunkards. [13] But as for me, my prayer is to You, O Lord, in the acceptable time; O God, in the multitude of Your mercy, Hear me in the truth of Your salvation. [14] Deliver me out of the mire, And let me not sink; Let me be delivered from those who hate me, And out of the deep waters. [15] Let not the floodwater overflow me, Nor let the deep swallow me up; And let not the pit shut its mouth on me. [16] Hear me, O Lord, for Your lovingkindness is good; Turn to me according to the multitude of Your tender mercies. [17] And do not hide Your face from Your servant, For I am in trouble; Hear me speedily. [18] Draw near to my soul, and redeem it; Deliver me because of my enemies. [19] You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor; My adversaries are all before You. [20] Reproach has broken my heart, And I am full of heaviness; I looked for someone to take pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none. [21] They also gave me gall for my food, And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. [22] Let their table become a snare before them, And their well-being a trap. [23] Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see; And make their loins shake continually. [24] Pour out Your indignation upon them, And let Your wrathful anger take hold of them. [25] Let their dwelling place be desolate; Let no one live in their tents. [26] For they persecute the ones You have struck, And talk of the grief of those You have wounded. [27] Add iniquity to their iniquity, And let them not come into Your 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 Your 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 bull, Which has horns and hooves. [32] The humble shall see this and be glad; And you who seek God, your hearts shall live. [33] For the Lord hears the poor, And does not despise His prisoners. [34] Let heaven and earth praise Him, The seas and everything that moves in them. [35] For God will save Zion And build the cities of Judah, That they may dwell there and possess it. [36] Also, the descendants of His servants shall inherit it, And those who love His name shall dwell in it.