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

3I am weary of my crying; my throat is dry; mine eyes fail while I wait for God.

4They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty; then I restored that which I took lawfully.

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

6Let not them that trust in thee be ashamed through me, O LORD God of hosts; let not those that seek thee be dishonored through me, O God of Israel.

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

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

9For the zeal of thy house has made me courageous; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

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

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

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

13But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time; O God, in the multitude of thy mercy answer me, in the abundance of thy salvation,

14Deliver 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.

15Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the well shut its mouth upon me.

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

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

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

19Thou knowest my reproach and my shame, and my dishonour is spread before all mine adversaries.

20O thou, heal my broken heart and bind it; I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

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

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

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

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

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

26The one which thou hast smitten, they have persecuted; they have added to the grief of him who is wounded.

27Add punishment of iniquity to their iniquity, that they may enter not into thy righteousness.

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

29But I am poor and sorrowful; let thy salvation help me, O God.

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

31This shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that has horns and hoofs.

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

33For the LORD hears the poor, and despises not his prisoners.

34Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moves therein.

35For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah;

36His servants shall dwell in it and shall inherit it; they that love his name shall dwell therein.