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¹For the choir director: according to “The Lilies.” Of David. [1] Save me, God, for the water has risen to my neck.

²I have sunk in deep mud, and there is no footing; I have come into deep water, and a flood sweeps over me.

³I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

⁴Those who hate me without cause are more numerous than the hairs of my head; my deceitful enemies, who would destroy me, are powerful. Though I did not steal, I must repay.

⁵God, you know my foolishness, and my guilty acts are not hidden from you.

⁶Do not let those who put their hope in you be disgraced because of me, Lord GOD of Armies; do not let those who seek you be humiliated because of me, God of Israel.

⁷For I have endured insults because of you, and shame has covered my face.

⁸I have become a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my mother’s sons

⁹because zeal for your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.

¹⁰I mourned and fasted, but it brought me insults.

¹¹I wore sackcloth as my clothing, and I was a joke to them.

¹²Those who sit at the city gate talk about me, and drunkards make up songs about me.

¹³But as for me, LORD, my prayer to you is for a time of favor. In your abundant, faithful love, God, answer me with your sure salvation.

¹⁴Rescue me from the miry mud; don’t let me sink. Let me be rescued from those who hate me and from the deep water.

¹⁵Don’t let the floodwaters sweep over me or the deep swallow me up; don’t let the Pit close its mouth over me.

¹⁶Answer me, LORD, for your faithful love is good. In keeping with your abundant compassion, turn to me.

¹⁷Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me quickly!

¹⁸Come near to me and redeem me; ransom me because of my enemies.

¹⁹You know the insults I endure — my shame and disgrace. You are aware of all my adversaries.

²⁰Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I waited for sympathy, but there was none; for comforters, but found no one.

²¹Instead, they gave me gall for my food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

²²Let their table set before them be a snare, and let it be a trap for their allies.

²³Let their eyes grow too dim to see, and let their hips continually quake.

²⁴Pour out your rage on them, and let your burning anger overtake them.

²⁵Make their fortification desolate; may no one live in their tents.

²⁶For they persecute the one you struck and talk about the pain of those you wounded.

²⁷Charge them with crime on top of crime; do not let them share in your righteousness.

²⁸Let them be erased from the book of life and not be recorded with the righteous.

²⁹But as for me — poor and in pain — let your salvation protect me, God.

³⁰I will praise God’s name with song and exalt him with thanksgiving.

³¹That will please the LORD more than an ox, more than a bull with horns and hooves.

³²The humble will see it and rejoice. You who seek God, take heart!

³³For the LORD listens to the needy and does not despise his own who are prisoners.

³⁴Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves in them,

³⁵for God will save Zion and build up the cities of Judah. They will live there and possess it.

³⁶The descendants of his servants will inherit it, and those who love his name will live in it.

¹For the choir director. Of David. To bring remembrance. [1] God, hurry to rescue me. LORD, hurry to help me!

²Let those who seek to kill me be disgraced and confounded; let those who wish me harm be turned back and humiliated.

³Let those who say, “Aha, aha!” retreat because of their shame.

⁴Let all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; let those who love your salvation continually say, “God is great!”

⁵I am oppressed and needy; hurry to me, God. You are my help and my deliverer; LORD, do not delay.

¹LORD, I seek refuge in you; let me never be disgraced.

²In your justice, rescue and deliver me; listen closely to me and save me.

³Be a rock of refuge for me, where I can always go. Give the command to save me, for you are my rock and fortress.

⁴Deliver me, my God, from the power of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and oppressive.

⁵For you are my hope, Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.

⁶I have leaned on you from birth; you took me from my mother’s womb. My praise is always about you.

⁷I am like a miraculous sign to many, and you are my strong refuge.

⁸My mouth is full of praise and honor to you all day long.

⁹Don’t discard me in my old age. As my strength fails, do not abandon me.

¹⁰For my enemies talk about me, and those who spy on me plot together,

¹¹saying, “God has abandoned him; chase him and catch him, for there is no one to rescue him.”

¹²God, do not be far from me; my God, hurry to help me.

¹³May my adversaries be disgraced and destroyed; may those who intend to harm me be covered with disgrace and humiliation.

¹⁴But I will hope continually and will praise you more and more.

¹⁵My mouth will tell about your righteousness and your salvation all day long, though I cannot sum them up.

¹⁶I come because of the mighty acts of the Lord GOD; I will proclaim your righteousness, yours alone.

¹⁷God, you have taught me from my youth, and I still proclaim your wondrous works.

¹⁸Even while I am old and gray, God, do not abandon me, while I proclaim your power to another generation, your strength to all who are to come.

¹⁹Your righteousness reaches the heights, God, you who have done great things; God, who is like you?

²⁰You caused me to experience many troubles and misfortunes, but you will revive me again. You will bring me up again, even from the depths of the earth.

²¹You will increase my honor and comfort me once again.

²²Therefore, I will praise you with a harp for your faithfulness, my God; I will sing to you with a lyre, Holy One of Israel.

²³My lips will shout for joy when I sing praise to you because you have redeemed me.

²⁴Therefore, my tongue will proclaim your righteousness all day long, for those who intend to harm me will be disgraced and confounded.

¹Of Solomon. [1] God, give your justice to the king and your righteousness to the king’s son.

²He will judge your people with righteousness and your afflicted ones with justice.

³May the mountains bring well-being to the people and the hills, righteousness.

⁴May he vindicate the afflicted among the people, help the poor, and crush the oppressor.

⁵May they fear you while the sun endures and as long as the moon, throughout all generations.

⁶May the king be like rain that falls on the cut grass, like spring showers that water the earth.

⁷May the righteous flourish in his days and well-being abound until the moon is no more.

⁸May he rule from sea to sea and from the Euphrates to the ends of the earth.

⁹May desert tribes kneel before him and his enemies lick the dust.

¹⁰May the kings of Tarshish and the coasts and islands bring tribute, the kings of Sheba and Seba offer gifts.

¹¹Let all kings bow in homage to him, all nations serve him.

¹²For he will rescue the poor who cry out and the afflicted who have no helper.

¹³He will have pity on the poor and helpless and save the lives of the poor.

¹⁴He will redeem them from oppression and violence, for their lives are precious in his sight.

¹⁵May he live long! May gold from Sheba be given to him. May prayer be offered for him continually, and may he be blessed all day long.

¹⁶May there be plenty of grain in the land; may it wave on the tops of the mountains. May its crops be like Lebanon. May people flourish in the cities like the grass of the field.

¹⁷May his name endure forever; as long as the sun shines, may his fame increase. May all nations be blessed by him and call him blessed.

¹⁸Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who alone does wonders.

¹⁹Blessed be his glorious name forever; the whole earth is filled with his glory. Amen and amen.

²⁰The prayers of David son of Jesse are concluded.