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¹Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck.

²I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me.

³I am weary with my crying out; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.

⁴More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies. What I did not steal must I now restore?

⁵O God, you know my folly; the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you.

⁶Let not those who hope in you be put to shame through me, O Lord GOD of hosts; let not those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel.

⁷For it is for your sake that I have borne reproach, that dishonor has covered my face.

⁸I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother's sons.

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

¹⁰When I wept and humbled my soul with fasting, it became my reproach.

¹¹When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.

¹²I am the talk of those who sit in the gate, and the drunkards make songs about me.

¹³But as for me, my prayer is to you, O LORD. At an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness.

¹⁴Deliver me from sinking in the mire; let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters.

¹⁵Let not the flood sweep over me, or the deep swallow me up, or the pit close its mouth over me.

¹⁶Answer me, O LORD, for your steadfast love is good; according to your abundant mercy, turn to me.

¹⁷Hide not your face from your servant, for I am in distress; make haste to answer me.

¹⁸Draw near to my soul, redeem me; ransom me because of my enemies!

¹⁹You know my reproach, and my shame and my dishonor; my foes are all known to you.

²⁰Reproaches have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.

²¹They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me sour wine to drink.

²²Let their own table before them become a snare; and when they are at peace, let it become a trap.

²³Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see, and make their loins tremble continually.

²⁴Pour out your indignation upon them, and let your burning anger overtake them.

²⁵May their camp be a desolation; let no one dwell in their tents.

²⁶For they persecute him whom you have struck down, and they recount the pain of those you have wounded.

²⁷Add to them punishment upon punishment; may they have no acquittal from you.

²⁸Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; let them not be enrolled among the righteous.

²⁹But I am afflicted and in pain; let your salvation, O God, set me on high!

³⁰I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him with thanksgiving.

³¹This will please the LORD more than an ox or a bull with horns and hoofs.

³²When the humble see it they will be glad; you who seek God, let your hearts revive.

³³For the LORD hears the needy and does not despise his own people 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, and people shall dwell there and possess it;

³⁶the offspring of his servants shall inherit it, and those who love his name shall dwell in it.

¹Make haste, O God, to deliver me! O LORD, make haste to help me!

²Let them be put to shame and confusion who seek my life! Let them be turned back and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt!

³Let them turn back because of their shame who say, “Aha, Aha!”

⁴May all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you! May those who love your salvation say evermore, “God is great!”

⁵But I am poor and needy; hasten to me, O God! You are my help and my deliverer; O LORD, do not delay!

¹In you, O LORD, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame!

²In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline your ear to me, and save me!

³Be to me a rock of refuge, to which I may continually come; you have given the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.

⁴Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.

⁵For you, O Lord, are my hope, my trust, O LORD, from my youth.

⁶Upon you I have leaned from before my birth; you are he who took me from my mother's womb. My praise is continually of you.

⁷I have been as a portent to many, but you are my strong refuge.

⁸My mouth is filled with your praise, and with your glory all the day.

⁹Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent.

¹⁰For my enemies speak concerning me; those who watch for my life consult together

¹¹and say, “God has forsaken him; pursue and seize him, for there is none to deliver him.”

¹²O God, be not far from me; O my God, make haste to help me!

¹³May my accusers be put to shame and consumed; with scorn and disgrace may they be covered who seek my hurt.

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

¹⁵My mouth will tell of your righteous acts, of your deeds of salvation all the day, for their number is past my knowledge.

¹⁶With the mighty deeds of the Lord GOD I will come; I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.

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

¹⁸So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come.

¹⁹Your righteousness, O God, reaches the high heavens. You who have done great things, O God, who is like you?

²⁰You who have made me see many troubles and calamities will revive me again; from the depths of the earth you will bring me up again.

²¹You will increase my greatness and comfort me again.

²²I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, O my God; I will sing praises to you with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel.

²³My lips will shout for joy, when I sing praises to you; my soul also, which you have redeemed.

²⁴And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long, for they have been put to shame and disappointed who sought to do me hurt.

¹Give the king your justice, O God, and your righteousness to the royal son!

²May he judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice!

³Let the mountains bear prosperity for the people, and the hills, in righteousness!

⁴May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor!

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

⁶May he be like rain that falls on the mown grass, like showers that water the earth!

⁷In his days may the righteous flourish, and peace abound, till the moon be no more!

⁸May he have dominion from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth!

⁹May desert tribes bow down before him, and his enemies lick the dust!

¹⁰May the kings of Tarshish and of the coastlands render him tribute; may the kings of Sheba and Seba bring gifts!

¹¹May all kings fall down before him, all nations serve him!

¹²For he delivers the needy when he calls, the poor and him who has no helper.

¹³He has pity on the weak and the needy, and saves the lives of the needy.

¹⁴From oppression and violence he redeems their life, and precious is their blood in his sight.

¹⁵Long may he live; may gold of Sheba be given to him! May prayer be made for him continually, and blessings invoked for him all the day!

¹⁶May there be abundance of grain in the land; on the tops of the mountains may it wave; may its fruit be like Lebanon; and may people blossom in the cities like the grass of the field!

¹⁷May his name endure forever, his fame continue as long as the sun! May people be blessed in him, all nations call him blessed!

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

¹⁹Blessed be his glorious name forever; may the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and Amen!

²⁰The prayers of David, the son of Jesse, are ended.