| 2 Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck. | |
| 3 I am sunk in the miry depths where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, swept and engulfed by the flood. | |
| 4 I am weary from calling for help; my throat is hoarse and parched. My eyes have grown dim looking for my God. | |
| 5 More than the hairs of my head are those who hate me for no reason; mighty are those who attack me, many are my enemies without cause. What I did not steal I am forced to restore. | |
| 6 Had I done wrong, O God, you would know it; my faults would not be hidden from you. | |
| 7 Let me not bring disgrace to those who hope in you, O Lord God of hosts; may I cause no dishonor to those who seek you, O God of Israel – | |
| 8 since I am held in contempt for your sake, and shame has covered my face. | |
| 9 I have become a stranger to my kindred, an alien to my mother’s sons. | |
| 10 Zeal for your house consumes me as fire and those who insult you insult me as well. | |
| 11 When I humbled myself with fasting, I was scorned for it. | |
| 12 When I put on sackcloth, I was made a laughingstock. | |
| 13 I have become the talk of those who sit at the gates, the topic of the drunkards’ songs. | |
| 14 But I pray to you, O Lord, at a time most favorable to you. In your great love, O God, answer me with your unfailing help. | |
| 15 Rescue me, lest I sink in the mire; deliver me from the storm and the deep waters. | |
| 16 Let not the flood engulf me, nor the deep suck me in, let not the pit close its mouth upon me. | |
| 17 In your mercy, O Lord, give me a good answer; in your great compassion, turn to me. | |
| 18 Hide not your face from your servant; answer me at once for I am in distress. | |
| 19 Come and rescue me; set me free from my enemies. | |
| 20 You know the disgrace I suffer, and you know my oppressors and my humiliations. | |
| 21 Dishonor has driven me to despair; I looked for sympathy and there was none, for comforters and there was no one. | |
| 22 They gave me poison for food and vinegar to drink. | |
| 23 May snares be set for them in their banquets and traps in their sacred feasts. | |
| 24 May their eyes grow dim, so that they will not see; may their loins be stricken with palsy. | |
| 25 Pour out your fury upon them, and let your burning anger overtake them. | |
| 26 Make their camp desolate; may no one dwell in their tents, | |
| 27 for they persecute the one you have wounded, and increased the pain of the one you have struck. | |
| 28 Charge them with crime upon crime, and do not acquit them. | |
| 29 Blot them out of the book of life, and do not enroll them among the upright. | |
| 30 But I myself am humbled and wounded; your salvation, O God, will lift me up. | |
| 31 I will praise the name of God in song; I will glorify him with thanksgiving. | |
| 32 This will please the Lord more than an ox or a bull with horns and divided hoofs. | |
| 33 Let the lowly witness this and be glad. You who seek God, may your hearts be revived. | |
| 34 For the Lord hears the needy and does not despise those in captivity. | |
| 35 Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and whatever moves in them. | |
| 36 For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah. His people shall dwell in the land and possess it; | |
| 37 the children of his servants shall inherit it, and those who love his name will dwell in it. | |
