⁰To the choirmaster, over lilies, of David.

¹Save me, God, for the waters have come in up to my being.

²I have sunk in the mire of the deep, and there is no foothold; I have come into the depths of the water, and the stream has overflowed me.

³I am weary with my calling out; my throat is parched; my eyes have failed, waiting for my God.

⁴Those who hate me without cause are more than the hairs of my head; those who would destroy me, my enemies of falsehood, are mighty; what I did not seize, I must then give back.

⁵God, you know my folly, and my guilt is not hidden from you.

⁶Let not those who wait for you be ashamed because of me, Adonai Yahweh of hosts; let not those who seek you be humiliated because of me, God of Israel.

⁷For on your account I have borne reproach; disgrace has covered my face.

⁸I have become estranged from my brothers, and a foreigner to the children of my mother.

⁹For zeal for your house has eaten me up, and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

¹⁰I wept with the fasting of my being, and it became reproaches to me.

¹¹I set sackcloth as my clothing, and I became a proverb to them.

¹²Those who sit in the gate speak of me, and I am the music of those who drink strong drink.

¹³As for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, at a time of favor; God, in the greatness of your loyal love, answer me, in the faithfulness of your rescue.

¹⁴Deliver me from the mud, and let me not sink; let me be delivered from those who hate me, and from the depths of the waters.

¹⁵Let not the stream of waters overflow me, nor the deep swallow me down, nor the pit shut its mouth over me.

¹⁶Answer me, Yahweh, for your loyal love is good; according to the greatness of your compassion, turn to me.

¹⁷And do not hide your face from your slave, for I am in distress; hurry, answer me.

¹⁸Draw near to my being and redeem it; for the sake of my enemies, ransom me.

¹⁹You know my reproach and my shame and my disgrace; all my opposers are before you.

²⁰Reproach has broken my heart, and I am sick; I waited for someone to show grief, and there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.

²¹They put poison in my food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

²²May their table before them become a trap, and their wholeness a snare.

²³May their eyes grow dark from seeing, and make their loins shake continually.

²⁴Pour out your indignation on them, and let the burning of your anger overtake them.

²⁵Let their encampment be made desolate; in their tents, let no one dwell.

²⁶For they chase the one you struck, and they recount the pain of your slain.

²⁷Set guilt upon their guilt, and let them not come into your righteousness.

²⁸Let them be wiped out of the scroll of life, and with the righteous let them not be written.

²⁹And I am poor and in pain; may your deliverance, God, set me on high.

³⁰I will praise the name of God in song, and I will make it great in thanksgiving.

³¹And it will be pleasing to Yahweh, more than an ox, a young bull with horns and split hooves.

³²The humble have seen and they will rejoice; you who seek God, may your heart live.

³³For Yahweh listens to the needy, and he does not despise his prisoners.

³⁴Skies and land will praise him, the seas, and all that creeps in them.

³⁵For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah; they will dwell there and take possession of it.

³⁶And the seed of his servants will inherit it, and those who love his name will dwell in it.