1Save me, O God;
2I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing:
3I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried:
4They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head:
5O God, thou knowest my foolishness;
6Let not them that wait for thee be put to shame through me, O Lord Jehovah of hosts:
7Because for thy sake I have borne reproach;
8I am become a stranger unto my brethren,
9For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up;
10When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting,
11When I made sackcloth my clothing,
12They that sit in the gate talk of me;
13But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Jehovah, in an acceptable time:
14Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink:
15Let not the waterflood overwhelm me,
16Answer me, O Jehovah; for thy lovingkindness is good:
17And hide not thy face from thy servant;
18Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it:
19Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor:
20Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness:
21They gave me also gall for my food;
22Let their table before them become a snare;
23Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see;
24Pour out thine indignation upon them,
25Let their habitation be desolate;
26For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten;
27Add iniquity unto their iniquity;
28Let them be blotted out of the book of life,
29But I am poor and sorrowful:
30I will praise the name of God with a song,
31And it will please Jehovah better than an ox,
32The meek have seen it, and are glad:
33For Jehovah heareth the needy,
34Let heaven and earth praise him,
35For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah;
36The seed also of his servants shall inherit it;