Christian Standard Bible

King James Bible

1Save me, God, for the water has risen to my neck.

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

2I have sunk in deep mud, and there is no footing; I have come into deep water, and a flood sweeps over me.

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

3I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

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

4Those who hate me without cause are more numerous than the hairs of my head; my deceitful enemies, who would destroy me, are powerful. Though I did not steal, I must repay.

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

5God, you know my foolishness, and my guilty acts are not hidden from you.

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

6Do not let those who put their hope in you be disgraced because of me, Lord GOD of Armies; do not let those who seek you be humiliated because of me, God of Israel.

6Let 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.

7For I have endured insults because of you, and shame has covered my face.

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

8I have become a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my mother's sons

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

9because zeal for your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.

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

10I mourned and fasted, but it brought me insults.

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

11I wore sackcloth as my clothing, and I was a joke to them.

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

12Those who sit at the city gate talk about me, and drunkards make up songs about me.

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

13But as for me, LORD, my prayer to you is for a time of favor. In your abundant, faithful love, God, answer me with your sure salvation.

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

14Rescue me from the miry mud; don't let me sink. Let me be rescued from those who hate me and from the deep water.

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.

15Don't let the floodwaters sweep over me or the deep swallow me up; don't let the Pit close its mouth over me.

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

16Answer me, LORD, for your faithful love is good. In keeping with your abundant compassion, turn to me.

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

17Don't hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me quickly!

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

18Come near to me and redeem me; ransom me because of my enemies.

18Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.

19You know the insults I endure--my shame and disgrace. You are aware of all my adversaries.

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

20Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I waited for sympathy, but there was none; for comforters, but found no one.

20Reproach 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.

21Instead, they gave me gall for my food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

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

22Let their table set before them be a snare, and let it be a trap for their allies.

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

23Let their eyes grow too dim to see, and let their hips continually quake.

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

24Pour out your rage on them, and let your burning anger overtake them.

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

25Make their fortification desolate; may no one live in their tents.

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

26For they persecute the one you struck and talk about the pain of those you wounded.

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

27Charge them with crime on top of crime; do not let them share in your righteousness.

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

28Let them be erased from the book of life and not be recorded with the righteous.

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

29But as for me--poor and in pain--let your salvation protect me, God.

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

30I will praise God's name with song and exalt him with thanksgiving.

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

31That will please the LORD more than an ox, more than a bull with horns and hooves.

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

32The humble will see it and rejoice. You who seek God, take heart!

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

33For the LORD listens to the needy and does not despise his own who are prisoners.

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

34Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves in them,

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

35for God will save Zion and build up the cities of Judah. They will live there and possess it.

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

36The descendants of his servants will inherit it, and those who love his name will live in it.

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

The Christian Standard Bible. Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission.

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