To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim , A Psalm of David .
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 .