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
3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while
4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine
5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from
6 Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed
7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my
8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my
9 For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches
10 When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my
11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to
12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song
13 But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable
14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be
15 Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow
16 Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me
17 And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble:
18 Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of
19 Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour:
20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I
21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave
22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which
23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their
24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger
25 Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their
26 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to
27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy
28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be
29 But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up
30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him
31 This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock
32 The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall
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
35 For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that
36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that