^{1 Ref} > Save me, God, For the waters have come up to my neck!

^{2 Ref} I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

^{3 Ref} I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

^{4 Ref} Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn't take away.

^{5 Ref} God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren't hidden from you.

^{6 Ref} Don't let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord Yahweh of Hosts. Don't let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel.

^{7 Ref} Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.

^{8 Ref} I have become a stranger to my brothers, An alien to my mother's children.

^{9 Ref} For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

^{10 Ref} When I wept and I fasted, That was to my reproach.

^{11 Ref} When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.

^{12 Ref} Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.

^{13 Ref} But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.

^{14 Ref} Deliver me out of the mire, and don't let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.

^{15 Ref} Don't let the flood waters overwhelm me, Neither let the deep swallow me up. Don't let the pit shut its mouth on me.

^{16 Ref} Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.

^{17 Ref} Don't hide your face from your servant, For I am in distress. Answer me speedily!

^{18 Ref} Draw near to my soul, and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.

^{19 Ref} You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you.

^{20 Ref} Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; For comforters, but I found none.

^{21 Ref} They also gave me gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.

^{22 Ref} Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.

^{23 Ref} Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can't see. Let their backs be continually bent.

^{24 Ref} Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.

^{25 Ref} Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.

^{26 Ref} For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.

^{27 Ref} Charge them with crime upon crime. Don't let them come into your righteousness.

^{28 Ref} Let them be blotted out of the book of life, And not be written with the righteous.

^{29 Ref} But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me.

^{30 Ref} I will praise the name of God with a song, And will magnify him with thanksgiving.

^{31 Ref} It will please Yahweh better than an ox, Or a bull that has horns and hoofs.

^{32 Ref} The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.

^{33 Ref} For Yahweh hears the needy, And doesn't despise his captive people.

^{34 Ref} Let heaven and earth praise him; The seas, and everything that moves therein!

^{35 Ref} For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it.

^{36 Ref} The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell therein.