¹ Save me, O God;
for the waters are come in unto my soul.

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.

All Scripture has been taken from
The Holy Bible - KJV (King James Version)