New Living Translation | King James Bible |
1Save me, O God, for the floodwaters are up 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. |
2Deeper and deeper I sink into the mire; I can’t find a foothold. I am in deep water, and the floods overwhelm me. | 2I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. |
3I am exhausted from crying for help; my throat is parched. My eyes are swollen with weeping, waiting for my God to help me. | 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 outnumber the hairs on my head. Many enemies try to destroy me with lies, demanding that I give back what I didn’t steal. | 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. |
5O God, you know how foolish I am; my sins cannot be hidden from you. | 5O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee. |
6Don’t let those who trust in you be ashamed because of me, O Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies. Don’t let me cause them to be humiliated, O 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 endure insults for your sake; humiliation is written all over my face. | 7Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face. |
8Even my own brothers pretend they don’t know me; they treat me like a stranger. | 8I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children. |
9Passion 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. |
10When I weep and fast, they scoff at me. | 10When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. |
11When I dress in burlap to show sorrow, they make fun of me. | 11I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them. |
12I am the favorite topic of town gossip, and all the drunks sing about me. | 12They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards. |
13But I keep praying to you, LORD, hoping this time you will show me favor. In your unfailing love, O God, answer my prayer 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 mud; don’t let me sink any deeper! Save me from those who hate me, and pull me from these deep waters. | 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 floods overwhelm me, or the deep waters swallow me, or the pit of death devour 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 my prayers, O LORD, for your unfailing love is wonderful. Take care of me, for your mercy is so plentiful. | 16Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies. |
17Don’t hide from your servant; answer me quickly, for I am in deep trouble! | 17And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily. |
18Come and redeem me; free me from my enemies. | 18Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies. |
19You know of my shame, scorn, and disgrace. You see all that my enemies are doing. | 19Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee. |
20Their insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. If only one person would show some pity; if only one would turn and comfort me. | 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. |
21But instead, they give me poison for food; they offer me sour wine for my thirst. | 21They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. |
22Let the bountiful table set before them become a snare and their prosperity become a trap. | 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 go blind so they cannot see, and make their bodies shake continually. | 23Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake. |
24Pour out your fury on them; consume them with your burning anger. | 24Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them. |
25Let their homes become desolate and their tents be deserted. | 25Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents. |
26To the one you have punished, they add insult to injury; they add to the pain of those you have hurt. | 26For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded. |
27Pile their sins up high, and don’t let them go free. | 27Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness. |
28Erase their names from the Book of Life; don’t let them be counted among the righteous. | 28Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous. |
29I am suffering and in pain. Rescue me, O God, by your saving power. | 29But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high. |
30Then I will praise God’s name with singing, and I will honor him with thanksgiving. | 30I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. |
31For this will please the LORD more than sacrificing cattle, more than presenting a bull with its horns and hooves. | 31This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs. |
32The humble will see their God at work and be glad. Let all who seek God’s help be encouraged. | 32The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God. |
33For the LORD hears the cries of the needy; he does not despise his imprisoned people. | 33For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners. |
34Praise him, O heaven and earth, the seas and all that move in them. | 34Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein. |
35For God will save Jerusalem and rebuild the towns of Judah. His people will live there and settle in their own land. | 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 those who obey him will inherit the land, and those who love him will live there in safety. | 36The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein. |
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. | King James Bible, text courtesy of BibleProtector.com. |
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