1Save me, O God, for the waters have come in to my soul. 2I sink in deep mire where there is no standing. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. 3I am weary with my crying. My throat is dried. My eyes fail while I wait for my God. 4Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who would cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. That which I took not away I have to restore. 5O God, thou know my foolishness, and my sins are not hid from thee. 6Let not those who wait for thee be put to shame through me, O lord LORD of hosts. Let not those who seek thee be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel. 7Because for thy sake I have borne reproach, shame has covered my face. 8I have become a stranger to my brothers, and an alien to my mother's sons. 9For the zeal of thy house has eaten me up, and the reproaches of those who reproach thee have fallen upon me. 10When I wept in my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. 11When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them. 12Those who sit in the gate talk of me, and [I am] the song of the drunkards. 13But as for me, my prayer is to thee, O LORD. In an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of thy loving kindness, answer me in the truth of thy salvation. 14Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters. 15Let not the water flood overwhelm me, nor let the deep shallow me up. And let not the pit shut its mouth upon me. 16Answer me, O LORD, for thy loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of thy tender mercies turn thou to me, 17and hide not thy face from thy servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily. 18Draw near to my soul, and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies. 19Thou know my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before thee. 20Reproach 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. 21They also gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. 22Let their table before them become a snare, and when they are in peace, a trap, and for a stumbling block, and for a retribution to them (LXX/NT). 23Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see, and bow down their back (LXX/NT) continually. 24Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let the fierceness of thine anger overtake them. 25Let their habitation be desolate. Let none dwell in their tents. 26For they persecute him whom thou have smitten, and they tell of the sorrow of those whom thou have wounded. 27Add iniquity to their iniquity, and let them not come into thy righteousness. 28Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous. 29But I am poor and sorrowful. Let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high. 30I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving, 31and it will please LORD better than an ox, [or] a bullock that has horns and hoofs. 32The meek have seen it, and are glad. Ye who seek after God, let your heart live. 33For LORD hears the needy, and does not despise his prisoners. 34Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and everything that moves therein. 35For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. And they shall abide there, and have it in possession. 36The seed also of his servants shall inherit it, and those who love his name shall dwell therein.