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¹ To the chief musician. Concerning the Lilies. Of David. Save me, O God, for the waters have come in to my soul.² I sink in deep mire, and there is no standing; I have come into deep waters where the floods overflow me.³ I am weary from my crying, my throat is scorched; my eyes fail while I wait for my God.⁴ They who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; they who would destroy me are mighty, my lying enemies; then I give back what I did not take away.⁵ O God, You know my foolishness, and my guiltiness is not hidden from You.⁶ O Jehovah of Hosts, do not let those who wait on You be ashamed for my sake; let not the ones who seek You be ashamed for my sake, O God of Israel.⁷ Because I suffered reproach for Your sake, shame has covered My face.⁸ I have become a stranger to My brothers and a foreigner to My mother's children.⁹ For the zeal of Your house has consumed Me; and the reproaches of the ones who reproach You have fallen on Me.¹⁰ When I humbled my soul with fasting, it also was to my reproach;¹¹ I also made sackcloth my clothing, and I became a mockery to them.¹² They who sit in the gate spoke of me; and I was the song of drunkards.

¹³ But as for me, my prayer is to You, O Jehovah, at a time of favor, O God! in the plentitude of Your mercy answer me, in the truth of Your salvation.¹⁴ Deliver me out of the mire, that I may not sink; let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.¹⁵ Let not the flood waters overflow me, nor let the deep swallow me up; and let not the pit shut its mouth on me.¹⁶ Hear me, O Jehovah, for Your mercy is good; in the plentitude of Your tender mercies, turn toward me.¹⁷ And do not hide Your face from Your servant; for it is distressing to Me; answer Me quickly;¹⁸ draw near My soul; redeem it; ransom Me because of My enemies.¹⁹ You have known My reproach, and My shame, and My dishonor; those vexing Me are all before You.²⁰ Reproach has broken My heart, and I am faint; and I waited for one to show pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.²¹ They also gave Me gall in My food; and in My thirst they gave Me vinegar to drink.

²² Let their table be a trap before them, and to those at ease a snare.²³ Let their eyes be darkened from seeing, and cause their loins to quiver continually.²⁴ Pour out Your wrath on them; and let the glow of Your anger overtake them.²⁵ Let their home be made desolate; let no one dwell in their tents.²⁶ For whom You have stricken, they have persecuted; and they gossip to the pain of those You pierced.²⁷ Put iniquity to their iniquity, and do not let them enter into Your righteousness.²⁸ Blot them out from the Book of Life; yea, let them not be written with the righteous.²⁹ But I am poor and in pain; O God, Your salvation shall set me on high.

³⁰ I will praise God's name in a song; and I will magnify Him with thanks.³¹ And it shall please Jehovah more than an ox, horned or hoofed bull.³² The humble have seen and are glad; you who seek God, your heart shall live.³³ For Jehovah hears the needy, and He does not despise His prisoners.³⁴ Let the heavens and the earth praise Him, the seas, and everything that moves in them.³⁵ For God will save Zion; and He will build the cities of Judah, and they shall live there and possess it.³⁶ And His servants' seed shall inherit; and they who love His name shall live in it.