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¹ SAVE me, O God; for the waters are come near to engulf me.² I sink in deep mire where there is no footing; I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.³ I am weary of my crying; my throat is dry; mine eyes fail while I wait for God.⁴ They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty; then I restored that which I took lawfully.⁵ O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.⁶ Let not them that trust in thee be ashamed through me, O LORD God of hosts; let not those that seek thee be dishonored through me, O God of Israel.⁷ Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face.⁸ I am become a stranger to my brethren and an alien to my mothers children.⁹ For the zeal of thy house has made me courageous; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.¹⁰ When I humbled 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 answer me, in the abundance 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 well shut its mouth upon me.¹⁶ Answer me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good; turn to me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.¹⁷ And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble; answer me speedily.¹⁸ Draw near to my soul, and redeem it; deliver me because of mine enemies.¹⁹ Thou knowest my reproach and my shame, and my dishonour is spread before all mine adversaries.²⁰ O thou, heal my broken heart and bind it; I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.²¹ They gave me bitter herbs for my food; 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 reward, let it become a trap.²³ Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their backs continually to bend.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 The one which thou hast smitten, they have persecuted; they have added to the grief of him who is wounded.²⁷ Add punishment of iniquity to their iniquity, that they may enter not into thy righteousness.²⁸ Let them be blotted out of thy book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.²⁹ But I am poor and sorrowful; let thy salvation help me, O God.

³⁰ I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.³¹ This shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that has horns and hoofs.³² The humble shall see this and be glad; and your heart shall live that seek God.³³ For the LORD hears the poor, and despises not his prisoners.³⁴ Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moves therein.³⁵ For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah;³⁶ His servants shall dwell in it and shall inherit it; they that love his name shall dwell therein.