| 1 | Unto the end. For those who will be changed: of David. |
| 2 | Save me, O God, for the waters have entered, even to my soul. |
| 3 | I have become stuck in a deep quagmire, and there is no firm footing. I have arrived at the height of the sea, and a tempest has overwhelmed me. |
| 4 | I have endured hardships, while crying out. My jaws have become hoarse; my eyes have failed. Meanwhile, I hope in my God. |
| 5 | Those who hate me without cause have been multiplied beyond the hairs of my head. My enemies, who persecuted me unjustly, have been strengthened. Then I was required to pay for what I did not take. |
| 6 | O God, you know my foolishness, and my offenses have not been hidden from you. |
| 7 | Let those who wait for you, O Lord, the Lord of hosts, not be shamed in me. Let those who seek you, O God of Israel, not be confounded over me. |
| 8 | For because of you, I have endured reproach; confusion has covered my face. |
| 9 | I have become a stranger to my brothers and a sojourner to the sons of my mother. |
| 10 | For zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproached you have fallen upon me. |
| 11 | And I covered my soul with fasting, and it has become a reproach to me. |
| 12 | And I put on a haircloth as my garment, and I became a parable to them. |
| 13 | Those who sat at the gate spoke against me, and those who drank wine made me their song. |
| 14 | But as for me, truly, my prayer is to you, O Lord. This time has pleased you well, O God. In the multitude of your mercy, in the truth of your salvation, hear me. |
| 15 | Rescue me from the quagmire, so that I may not become trapped. Free me from those who hate me and from deep waters. |
| 16 | Do not allow the tempest of water to submerge me, nor the deep to absorb me. And do not allow the well to close in on me. |
| 17 | Hear me, O Lord, for your mercy is kind. Look upon me, according to the fullness of your compassion. |
| 18 | And do not turn your face away from your servant, for I am in trouble: heed me quickly. |
| 19 | Attend to my soul, and free it. Rescue me, because of my enemies. |
| 20 | You know my reproach, and my confusion, and my reverence. |
| 21 | All those who trouble me are in your sight; my heart has anticipated reproach and misery. And I sought for one who might grieve together with me, but there was no one, and for one who might console me, and I found no one. |
| 22 | And they gave me gall for my food. And in my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink. |
| 23 | Let their table be a snare before them, and a retribution, and a scandal. |
| 24 | Let their eyes be darkened, so that they may not see, and may their back always be crooked. |
| 25 | Pour out your indignation upon them, and may the fury of your anger take hold of them. |
| 26 | May their dwelling place be deserted, and may there be no one who dwells in their tabernacles. |
| 27 | For they persecuted whomever you struck. And they have added to the grief of my wounds. |
| 28 | Assign an iniquity upon their iniquity, and may they not enter into your justice. |
| 29 | Delete them from the Book of the Living, and let them not be written down with the just. |
| 30 | I am poor and sorrowful, but your salvation, O God, has taken me up. |
| 31 | I will praise the name of God with a canticle, and I will magnify him with praise. |
| 32 | And it will please God more than a new calf producing horns and hoofs. |
| 33 | Let the poor see and rejoice. Seek God, and your soul will live. |
| 34 | For the Lord has heard the poor, and he has not despised his prisoners. |
| 35 | Let the heavens and the earth praise him: the sea, and everything that crawls in it. |
| 36 | For God will save Zion, and the cities of Judah will be built up. And they will dwell there, and they will acquire it by inheritance. |
| 37 | And the offspring of his servants will possess it; and those who love his name will dwell in it. |
