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To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David.
1 The waters in unto my soul are come, O God, me save. 2 I am in muddy deep sunk down, where I no standing have: into deep waters I am come, where floods me overflow. 3 I of my crying weary am, my throat is dried so;
mine eyes fail: I wait for my God. 4 They that have hated me without a cause, than mine head’s hairs they more in number be: also mine en’mies wrongfully they are that would me slay, mighty they are; then I restor’d what I took not away.
5 O God, thou know’st my foolishness; my sin’s not hid from thee. 6 Who wait on thee, Lord God of hosts, let not be sham’d for me: O never suffer them, who do for thee inquiry make, O God of Israel, to be confounded for my sake.
7 By reason that I for thy sake reproach have suffered: confusion my countenance hath over covered. 8 I as a stranger am become unto my bretheren; and am an aliant unto my mother’s childeren.
9 For of thy house the zeal me hath up eaten: every one who thee reproach, their reproaches are fallen me upon. 10 In fasts, I wept and spent my soul, this was reproach to me. 11 And I my garment sackcloth made: yet must their proverb be.
12 They that do sit within the gate, against me speak they do; unto the drinkers of strong drink, I was a song also. 13 But I in an accepted time to thee, Lord, make my pray’r: me, Lord, in thy salvation’s truth, in thy great mercy hear.
14 Deliver me out of the mire, and me from sinking keep: let me be freed mine haters from, and out of waters deep. 15 O’erflow me let not water floods, nor me let swallow up the deep, also let not the pit her mouth upon me shut.
16 Jehovah hear thou me, for good is thy benignity: turn unto me according to greatness of thy mercy. 17 And hide not thou thy countenance from thy servant away; because that I in trouble am; hear me without delay.
18 O draw thou nigh unto my soul, do thou it vindicate; give me deliverance, because of them that do me hate. 19 Thou hast known my reproach, also my shame, and my disgrace: mine adversaries every one they are before thy face.
20 Reproach mine heart brake, I was griev’d: for some me to bemoan I sought, but one there was; and for comforters, but found none. 21 Moreover instead of my meat unto me gall they gave; and in me thirst they vinegar for drink made me to have.
22 Their table set before their face, to them become a snare: and that let be a trap, which should have been for their welfare. 23 And let their eyes be darkened, that they may never see: their loins also with trembling to shake continually.
24 Pour out thine ire on them, let seize on them thine anger fell. 25 Their palace let be desolate: none in their tents let dwell. 26 Because they him do persecute on whom thy stroke is found: also they talk unto the grief of them whom thou dost wound.
27 Thou unto their iniquity iniquity do add: into thy righteousness for them let entrance none be had. 28 Out of the book of the living O do thou them forth blot, and amongst them that righteous are be written let them not.
29 But Lord, I’m poor and sorrowful: let thy health lift me high. 30 With song I’ll praise the name of God: with thanks him magnify. 31 Unto Jehovah this also shall be more pleasing far, than any ox or bullock young, that horn’d and hoofed are.
32 This thing when as they shall behold, then shall be glad the meek; also their heart shall ever live that after God do seek. 33 For the Lord hears the poor, nor doth despise whom he hath bound. 34 Let heav’n, earth, seas and all therein that moves, his praises sound.
35 For God will Judah’s cities build, and Zion he will save: that they may dwell therein, and may it in possession have. 36 The seed also of his servants inherit shall the same: also therein inhabit shall they that do love his name.