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

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

4 They 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

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

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 unto my brethren and an alien unto my mother's children

9 For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are 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 __

13 But 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

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 waterflood __ 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 unto 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

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

19 Thou hast known my reproach and my shame and my dishonour mine 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

21 They gave me also gall for my meat 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 thine 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

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

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

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 bullock that hath horns and hoofs

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

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 therein

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 therein