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[1]Save me, O God: for the waters are entered even to my soul.
[2]I stick fast in the deep mire, where no stay is: I am come into deep waters, and the streams run over me.
[3]I am weary of crying: my throat is dry: mine eyes fail, while I wait for my God.
[4]They that hate me without a cause, are more then the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, and are mine enemies falsely, are mighty, so that I restored that which I took not.
[5]O God, thou knowest my foolishness, and my faults are not hid from thee.
[6]Let not them that trust in thee, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed for me: let not those that seek thee, be confounded through me, O God of Israel.
[7]For thy sake have I suffered reproof: shame hath covered my face.
[8]I am become a stranger unto my brethren, even an alien unto my mother's sons.
[9]For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me, and the rebukes of them that rebuked thee, are fallen upon me.
[10]I wept and my soul fasted, but that was to my reproof.
[11]I put on a sack also: and I became a proverb unto them.
[12]They that sat at the gate, spake of me, and the drunkards sang of me,
[13]But Lord, I make my prayer unto thee in an acceptable time, even in the multitude of thy mercy: O God, hear me in the truth of my salvation.
[14]Deliver me out of the mire, that I stink not: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
[15]Let not the water flood drown 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 loving kindness is good: turn unto me according the multitude of thy tender mercies.
[17]And hide not thy face from thy servant, for I am in trouble: make haste and hear me.
[18]Draw near unto my soul and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.
[19]Thou hast known my reproof and my shame, and my dishonor: all mine adversaries are before thee.
[20]Rebuke hath broken mine heart, and I am full of heaviness, and I looked for some to have pity on me, but there was none: and for comforters, but I found none
[21]For they gave me gall in my meat, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
[22]Let their table be a snare before them, and their property their ruin.
[23]Let their eyes be blinded that they see not: and make their loins always to tremble.
[24]Pour out thine anger upon them, and let thy wrathful displeasure take them.
[25]Let their habitation be voided, and let none dwell in their tents.
[26]For they persecute him, whom thou hast smitten: and they add unto the sorrow of them, whom thou hast wounded.
[27]Lay iniquity upon their iniquity, and let them not come into righteousness.
[28]Let them be put out of the book of life, neither let them be written with the righteous.
[29]When I am poor and in heaviness, thine help, O God, shall exalt me.
[30]I will praise the name of God with a song, and magnify him with thanksgiving.
[31]This also shall please the Lord better than a young bullock, that hath horns and hoofs.
[32]The humble shall see this, and they that seek God, shall be glad, and your heart shall live.
[33]For the Lord heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
[34]Let heaven and earth praise him: the seas and all that moveth in them.
[35]For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah, that men 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 therein.
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