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¹ Save me, O God!
    For ^(b)the waters have come up to my neck.^[a]
2 I sink in deep ^(c)mire,
    where there is no foothold;
I have come into deep waters,
    and the flood ^(d)sweeps over me.
^3 (e)I am weary with my crying out;
    ^(f)my throat is parched.
^(g)My eyes grow dim
    with ^(h)waiting for my God.

^4 (i)More in number than the hairs of my head
    are ^(j)those who hate me ^(k)without cause;
mighty are those who would destroy me,
    ^(l)those who attack me with lies.
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 Let not those who hope in you ^(m)be put to shame through me,
    O Lord God of hosts;
let not those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me,
    O God of Israel.
⁷ For it is ⁽ⁿ⁾for your sake that I have borne reproach,
    that dishonor has covered my face.
⁸ I have become ^(o)a stranger to my brothers,
    an alien to my mother's sons.

⁹ For ^(p)zeal for your house has consumed me,
    and ^(q)the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
¹⁰ When I wept and humbled^[b] my soul with fasting,
    it became my reproach.
¹¹ When I made ^(r)sackcloth my clothing,
    I became ^(s)a byword to them.
¹² I am the talk of those who ^(t)sit in the gate,
    and the drunkards make ^(u)songs about me.

¹³ But as for me, my ^(v)prayer is to you, O Lord.
    At ^(w)an acceptable time, O God,
    in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness.
¹⁴ Deliver me
    from sinking in ^(x)the mire;
^(y)let me be delivered from my enemies
    and from ^(z)the deep waters.
¹⁵ Let not the flood sweep over me,
    or the deep swallow me up,
    or ^(aa)the pit close ^(ab)its mouth over me.

¹⁶ Answer me, O Lord, for your ^(ac)steadfast love is good;
    according to your abundant ^(ad)mercy, ^(ae)turn to me.
^17 (af)Hide not your face from your servant,
    ^(ag)for I am in distress; ^(ah)make haste to answer me.
¹⁸ Draw near to my soul, redeem me;
    ransom me because of my enemies!

¹⁹ You know my ^(ai)reproach,
    and my shame and my dishonor;
    my foes are all known to you.
^20 (aj)Reproaches have broken my heart,
    so that I am in ^(ak)despair.
I ^(al)looked for ^(am)pity, but there was none,
    and for ^(an)comforters, but I found none.
²¹ They gave me ^(ao)poison for food,
    and for my thirst they gave me ^(ap)sour wine to drink.

^22 (aq)Let their own ^(ar)table before them become a snare;
    ^(as)and when they are at peace, let it become a trap.^[c]
23 (at)Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see,
    ^(au)and make their loins tremble continually.
²⁴ Pour out your indignation upon them,
    and let your burning anger overtake them.
^25 (av)May their camp be a desolation;
    let no one dwell in their tents.
²⁶ For they ^(aw)persecute him whom ^(ax)you have struck down,
    and they recount the pain of ^(ay)those you have wounded.
^27 (az)Add to them punishment upon punishment;
    may they have no acquittal from you.^[d]
28 Let them be ^(ba)blotted out of the book of the living;
    let them not be ^(bb)enrolled among the righteous.

²⁹ But I am afflicted and in pain;
    let your salvation, O God, ^(bc)set me on high!

³⁰ I will ^(bd)praise the name of God with a song;
    I will ^(be)magnify him with ^(bf)thanksgiving.
³¹ This will ^(bg)please the Lord more than an ox
    or a bull ^(bh)with horns and hoofs.
³² When ^(bi)the humble see it they will be glad;
    you who seek God, ^(bj)let your hearts revive.
³³ For the Lord hears the needy
    and ^(bk)does not despise his own people who are prisoners.

³⁴ Let ^(bl)heaven and earth praise him,
    the seas and everything that moves in them.
³⁵ For ^(bm)God will save Zion
    and build up the cities of Judah,
and people shall dwell there and possess it;
^{36     (bn)}the offspring of his servants shall inherit it,
    and those who love his name shall dwell in it.