¹ To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in to my soul.

² I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.¹²

1. deep mire: Heb. the mire of depth
2. deep waters: Heb. depth of waters

³ I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: my eyes fail while I wait for my God.

⁴ They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: they that would destroy me, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.

⁵ O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.¹

1. sins: Heb. guiltiness

⁶ Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.

⁷ Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

⁸ I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to my mother’s children.

⁹ For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee have fallen upon me.

¹⁰ When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.

¹¹ I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.

¹² They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.¹

1. drunkards: Heb. drinkers of strong drink

¹³ But as for me, my prayer is to thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.

¹⁴ Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

¹⁵ Let not the water flood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

¹⁶ Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn to me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.

¹⁷ And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.¹

1. hear...: Heb. make haste to hear me

¹⁸ Draw near to my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of my enemies.

¹⁹ Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: my adversaries are all before thee.

²⁰ Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.¹

1. to take...: Heb. to lament with me

²¹ They gave me also gall for my food; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

²² Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

²³ Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.

²⁴ Pour out thy indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.

²⁵ Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.¹²

1. their habitation: Heb. their palace
2. let none...: Heb. let there not be a dweller

²⁶ For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.¹

1. those...: Heb. thy wounded

²⁷ Add iniquity to their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.¹

1. iniquity unto...: or, punishment of iniquity, etc

²⁸ Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.

²⁹ But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.

³⁰ I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.

³¹ This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bull that hath horns and hoofs.

³² The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.¹

1. humble: or, meek

³³ For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.

³⁴ Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth in it.¹

1. moveth: Heb. creepeth

³⁵ For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.

³⁶ The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell in it.