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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 deep waters, where the floods overflow me. | |
3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God. | |
4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away. | |
5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee. | |
6 Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel. | |
7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face. | |
8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children. | |
9 For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me. | |
10 When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. | |
11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I become 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 hear me, in the truth 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 pit shut her mouth upon me. | |
16 Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies. | |
17 And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily. | |
18 Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies. | |
19 Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee. | |
20 Reproach hath 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 meat; 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 welfare, let it become a trap. | |
23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake. | |
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 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded. | |
27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness. | |
28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous. | |
29 But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy 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 This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs. | |
32 The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God. | |
33 For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners. | |
34 Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and everything that moveth therein. | |
35 For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession. | |
36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein. | |
