| 1 ¶ To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
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| 2 I sink in deep mire,1 where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters,2 where the floods overflow me.
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| 3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
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| 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.
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| 5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins3 are not hid from thee.
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| 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.
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| 7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
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| 8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.
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| 9 For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
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| 10 When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
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| 11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
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| 12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.4
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 15 Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
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| 16 Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
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| 17 And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear5 me speedily.
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| 18 Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.
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| 19 Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.
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| 20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take6 pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
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| 21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
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| 22 ¶ Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
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| 23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
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| 24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
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| 25 Let their habitation7 be desolate; and let none8 dwell in their tents.
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| 26 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those9 whom thou hast wounded.
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| 27 Add iniquity unto10 their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.
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| 28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
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| 29 But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
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| 30 ¶ I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
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| 31 This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
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| 32 The humble11 shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
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| 33 For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
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| 34 Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth12 therein.
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| 35 For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.
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| 36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.
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