| 1 | Unto the end, for them that shall be changed; for David. |
| 2 | SAVE me, O God: for the waters are come in even unto my soul. |
| 3 | I stick fast in the mire of the deep: and there is no sure standing. I am come into the depth of the sea: and a tempest hath overwhelmed me. |
| 4 | I have laboured with crying; my jaws are become hoarse: my eyes have failed, whilst I hope in my God. |
| 5 | They are multiplied above the hairs of my head, who hate me without cause. My enemies are grown strong who have wrongfully persecuted me: then did I pay that which I took not away. |
| 6 | O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my offences are not hidden from thee: |
| 7 | Let not them be ashamed for me, who look for thee, O Lord, the Lord of hosts. Let them not be confounded on my account, who seek thee, O God of Israel. |
| 8 | Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face. |
| 9 | I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to the sons of my mother. |
| 10 | For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up: and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me. |
| 11 | And I covered my soul in fasting: and it was made a reproach to me. |
| 12 | And I made haircloth my garment: and I became a byword to them. |
| 13 | They that sat in the gate spoke against me: and they that drank wine made me their song. |
| 14 | But as for me, my prayer is to thee, O Lord; for the time of thy good pleasure, O God. In the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation. |
| 15 | Draw me out of the mire, that I may not stick fast: deliver me from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. |
| 16 | Let not the tempest of water drown me, nor the deep swallow me up: and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. |
| 17 | Hear me, O Lord, for thy mercy is kind; look upon me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies. |
| 18 | And turn not away thy face from thy servant: for I am in trouble, hear me speedily. |
| 19 | Attend to my soul, and deliver it: save me because of my enemies. |
| 20 | Thou knowest my reproach, and my confusion, and my shame. |
| 21 | In thy sight are all they that afflict me; my heart hath expected reproach and misery. And I looked for one that would grieve together with me, but there was none: and for one that would comfort me, and I found none. |
| 22 | And they gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. |
| 23 | Let their table become as a snare before them, and a recompense, and a stumblingblock. |
| 24 | Let their eyes be darkened that they see not; and their back bend thou down always. |
| 25 | Pour out thy indignation upon them: and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them. |
| 26 | Let their habitation be made desolate: and let there be none to dwell in their tabernacles. |
| 27 | Because they have persecuted him whom thou hast smitten; and they have added to the grief of my wounds. |
| 28 | Add thou iniquity upon their iniquity: and let them not come into thy justice. |
| 29 | Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; and with the just let them not be written. |
| 30 | But I am poor and sorrowful: thy salvation, O God, hath set me up. |
| 31 | I will praise the name of God with a canticle: and I will magnify him with praise. |
| 32 | And it shall please God better than a young calf, that bringeth forth horns and hoofs. |
| 33 | Let the poor see and rejoice: seek ye God, and your soul shall live. |
| 34 | For the Lord hath heard the poor: and hath not despised his prisoners. |
| 35 | Let the heavens and the earth praise him; the sea, and every thing that creepeth therein. |
| 36 | For God will save Sion, and the cities of Juda shall be built up. And they shall dwell there, and acquire it by inheritance. |
| 37 | And the seed of his servants shall possess it; and they that love his name shall dwell therein. |
