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. |
