¹Save me, O God, For the waters have threatened my life. ²I have sunk in deep mire, and there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and a flood overflows me. ³I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched; 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 destroy me are powerful, being wrongfully my enemies; What I did not steal, I then have to restore. ⁵O God, it is You who knows my folly, And my wrongs are not hidden from You. ⁶May those who wait for You not be ashamed through me, O Lord GOD of hosts; May those who seek You not be dishonored through me, O God of Israel, ⁷Because for Your sake I have borne reproach; Dishonor has covered my face. ⁸I have become estranged from my brothers And an alien to my mother's sons. ⁹For zeal for Your house has consumed me, And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me. ¹⁰When I wept in my soul with fasting, It became my reproach. ¹¹When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them. ¹²Those who sit in the gate talk about me, And I am the song of the drunkards. ¹³But as for me, my prayer is to You, O LORD, at an acceptable time; O God, in the greatness of Your lovingkindness, Answer me with Your saving truth. ¹⁴Deliver me from the mire and do not let me sink; May I be delivered from my foes and from the deep waters. ¹⁵May the flood of water not overflow me Nor the deep swallow me up, Nor the pit shut its mouth on me. ¹⁶Answer me, O LORD, for Your lovingkindness is good; According to the greatness of Your compassion, turn to me, ¹⁷And do not hide Your face from Your servant, For I am in distress; answer me quickly. ¹⁸Oh draw near to my soul and redeem it; Ransom me because of my enemies! ¹⁹You know my reproach and my shame and my dishonor; All my adversaries are before You. ²⁰Reproach has broken my heart and I am so sick. And I looked for sympathy, but there was none, And for comforters, but I found none. ²¹They also gave me gall for my food And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. ²²May their table before them become a snare; And when they are in peace, may it become a trap. ²³May their eyes grow dim so that they cannot see, And make their loins shake continually. ²⁴Pour out Your indignation on them, And may Your burning anger overtake them. ²⁵May their camp be desolate; May none dwell in their tents. ²⁶For they have persecuted him whom You Yourself have smitten, And they tell of the pain of those whom You have wounded. ²⁷Add iniquity to their iniquity, And may they not come into Your righteousness. ²⁸May they be blotted out of the book of life And may they not be recorded with the righteous. ²⁹But I am afflicted and in pain; May Your salvation, O God, set me securely on high. ³⁰I will praise the name of God with song And magnify Him with thanksgiving. ³¹And it will please the LORD better than an ox Or a young bull with horns and hoofs. ³²The humble have seen it and are glad; You who seek God, let your heart revive. ³³For the LORD hears the needy And does not despise His who are prisoners. ³⁴Let heaven and earth praise Him, The seas and everything that moves in them. ³⁵For God will save Zion and build the cities of Judah, That they may dwell there and possess it. ³⁶The descendants of His servants will inherit it, And those who love His name will dwell in it.

For God will save Zion and build the cities of Judah, That they may dwell there and possess it. The descendants of His servants will inherit it, And those who love His name will dwell in it. O God, hasten to deliver me; O LORD, hasten to my help!