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¹ For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshannim. [A Psalm] of David. Save me, O God; For the waters have come in to my soul.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 dried: My eyes fail while I wait for my God.⁴ Those that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: Those that would cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty: That which I did not take away I have to restore.⁵ O God, you know my foolishness; And my sins are not hid from you.⁶ Don't let those that wait for you be put to shame through me, O Lord Yahweh of hosts: Don't let those that seek you be brought to dishonor through 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 sons.⁹ For the zeal of your house has eaten me up; And the reproaches of those that reproach you have fallen on me.¹⁰ When I wept, [and chastened] my soul with fasting, That was to my reproach.¹¹ When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.¹² Those that sit in the gate talk of me; And [I am] the song of the drunkards.

¹³ But as for me, my prayer is to you, O Yahweh, in an acceptable time: O God, in the abundance of your loving-kindness, Answer me in the truth of your salvation.¹⁴ Deliver me out of the mire, and don't let me sink: Let me be delivered from those that hate me, and out of the deep waters.¹⁵ Don't let the waterflood overwhelm me, Neither let the deep swallow me up; And don't let the pit shut its mouth on me.¹⁶ Answer me, O Yahweh; for your loving-kindness is good: According to the multitude of your tender mercies turn to me.¹⁷ And don't hide your face from your slave; For I am in distress; answer me speedily.¹⁸ Draw near to my soul, and redeem it: Ransom me because of my enemies.¹⁹ You know my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: My adversaries are all before you.²⁰ Reproach has broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.²¹ They gave me also gall for my food; And in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

²² Let their table before them become a snare; And for the secure ones, [let it become] a trap.²³ Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can't see; And make their loins continually to shake.²⁴ Pour out your indignation on them, And let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.²⁵ Let their habitation be desolate; Let none dwell in their tents.²⁶ For they persecute him whom you have smitten; And they tell of the sorrow of those whom you have wounded.²⁷ Add iniquity to their iniquity; And don't let them come into your righteousness.²⁸ Let them be blotted out of the book of life, 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 And it will please Yahweh better than an ox, [Or] a bull that has horns and hoofs.³² The meek have seen it, and are glad: You that seek after God, let your heart live.³³ For Yahweh hears the needy, And does not despise his prisoners.³⁴ Let heaven and earth praise him, The seas, and everything that moves therein.³⁵ For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah; And they shall abide there, and have it in possession.³⁶ The seed also of his slaves shall inherit it; And those that love his name shall dwell therein.