| 1 | Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck! |
| 2 | I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. |
| 3 | I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God. |
| 4 | 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 | God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren't hidden from you. |
| 6 | Don't let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord Yahweh of Armies. Don't let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel. |
| 7 | Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face. |
| 8 | I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother's children. |
| 9 | For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me. |
| 10 | When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach. |
| 11 | When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them. |
| 12 | Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards. |
| 13 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me. |
| 17 | Don't hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily! |
| 18 | Draw near to my soul, and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies. |
| 19 | You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you. |
| 20 | 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 | They also gave me gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink. |
| 22 | Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap. |
| 23 | Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can't see. Let their backs be continually bent. |
| 24 | Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them. |
| 25 | Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents. |
| 26 | For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt. |
| 27 | Charge them with crime upon crime. Don't let them come into your righteousness. |
| 28 | Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous. |
| 29 | But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me. |
| 30 | I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. |
| 31 | It will please Yahweh better than an ox, or a bull that has horns and hoofs. |
| 32 | The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live. |
| 33 | For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn't despise his captive people. |
| 34 | Let heaven and earth praise him; the seas, and everything that moves therein! |
| 35 | For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it. |
| 36 | The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell therein. For the Chief Musician. By David. A reminder. |
