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- {To the chief Musician.
Upon Shoshannim. [A Psalm] of David.} Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto [my] soul.
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- I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing;
I am come into the depths of waters, and the flood overfloweth me.
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- I am weary with my crying, my throat is parched;
mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
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- They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head;
they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
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- Thou, O God, knowest my foolishness, and my trespasses are not hidden from thee.
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- Let not them that wait on thee, Lord, Jehovah of hosts, be ashamed through me;
let not those that seek thee be confounded through me, O God of Israel.
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- Because for thy sake I have borne reproach;
confusion hath covered my face.
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- I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's sons;
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- For the zeal of thy house hath devoured me, and the reproaches of them that reproach thee have fallen upon me.
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- And I wept, my soul was fasting: that also was to my reproach;
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- And I made sackcloth my garment: then I became a proverb to them.
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- They that sit in the gate talk of me, and [I am] the song of the drunkards.
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- But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, Jehovah, in an acceptable time: O God, in the abundance of thy loving-kindness answer me, according to the truth of thy salvation:
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- Deliver me out of the mire, let me not sink;
let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the depths of waters.
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- Let not the flood of waters overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up;
and let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.
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- Answer me, O Jehovah;
for thy loving-kindness is good: according to the abundance of thy tender mercies, turn toward me;
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- And hide not thy face from thy servant, for I am in trouble: answer me speedily.
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- Draw nigh unto my soul, be its redeemer;
ransom me because of mine enemies.
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- *Thou* knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.
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- Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am overwhelmed: and I looked for sympathy, but there was none;
and for comforters, but I found none.
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- Yea, they gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
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- Let their table become a snare before them, and their very welfare a trap;
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- Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not, and make their loins continually to shake.
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- Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let the fierceness of thine anger take hold of them.
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- Let their habitation be desolate;
let there be no dweller in their tents.
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- For they persecute him whom *thou* hast smitten, and they talk for the sorrow of those whom thou hast wounded.
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- Add iniquity unto their iniquity, and let them not come into thy righteousness.
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- Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.
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- But I am afflicted and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me secure on high.
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- I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving;
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- And it shall please Jehovah more than an ox, — a bullock with horns and cloven hoofs.
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- The meek shall see it, they shall be glad;
ye that seek God, your heart shall live.
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- For Jehovah heareth the needy, and despiseth not his prisoners.
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- Let heavens and earth praise him;
the seas, and everything that moveth therein.
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- For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah;
and they shall dwell there, and possess it:
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- And the seed of his servants shall inherit it, and they that love his name shall dwell therein.
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