MLV(i)
1 Save me, O God, because the waters have come in to my soul.
2 I sink in deep mud where there is no standing. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
3 I am weary with my crying. My throat is dried. My eyes fail while I wait for my God.
4 Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who would cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I did not take away.
5 O God, you know my foolishness and my sins are not hid from you. 6 Do not let those who wait for you, be put to shame through me, O lord Jehovah of hosts. Do not let those who seek you, be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel.
7 Because for your sake I have borne reproach, shame has covered my face. 8 I have become a stranger to my brothers and an alien to my mother's sons.
9 Because the zeal of your house has eaten me up and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen upon me.
10 When I wept in my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. 11 When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a parable to them. 12 Those who sit at the gate talk of me and I am the song of the drunkards.
13 But as for me, my prayer is to you, O Jehovah. Answer me in the truth of your salvation in an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of your loving kindness,.
14 Deliver me out of the mud and do not let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me and out of the deep waters. 15 Do not let the water flood overwhelm me, nor let the deep swallow me up. And do not let the pit shut its mouth upon me.
16 Answer me, O Jehovah, because your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies turn to me, 17 and do not hide your face from your servant, because I am in distress. Answer me speedily. 18 Draw near to my soul and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.
19 You know my reproach and my shame and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you. 20 Reproach has 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 also gave me gall for my food and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22 Let their table be a trap before them, and to those at peace, let it be a snare.
23 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see and bow down their back continually.
24 Pour out your indignation upon them and let the fierceness of your anger overtake them. 25 Let their habitation be desolate. Let none dwell in their tents.
26 Because they persecute he whom you have struck and they tell of the sorrow of those whom you have wounded. 27 Add iniquity to their iniquity and do not let them come into your righteousness.
28 Let them be blotted out of the book of life and not be written with the righteous.
29 But I am poor and sorrowful. Let your salvation, O God, set me up on high. 30 I will praise the name of God with a song and will extol him with thanksgiving, 31 and it will please Jehovah better than an ox, or a bullock that has horns and hoofs.
32 The meek have seen it and are glad. You* who seek after God, let your* heart live. 33 Because Jehovah hears the needy and does not despise his prisoners.
34 Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves in it. 35 Because God will save Zion and build the cities of Judah. And they will abide there and have it in possession. 36 The seed also of his servants will inherit it and those who love his name will dwell in it.
3 I am weary with my crying. My throat is dried. My eyes fail while I wait for my God.
4 Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who would cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I did not take away.
5 O God, you know my foolishness and my sins are not hid from you. 6 Do not let those who wait for you, be put to shame through me, O lord Jehovah of hosts. Do not let those who seek you, be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel.
7 Because for your sake I have borne reproach, shame has covered my face. 8 I have become a stranger to my brothers and an alien to my mother's sons.
9 Because the zeal of your house has eaten me up and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen upon me.
10 When I wept in my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. 11 When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a parable to them. 12 Those who sit at the gate talk of me and I am the song of the drunkards.
13 But as for me, my prayer is to you, O Jehovah. Answer me in the truth of your salvation in an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of your loving kindness,.
14 Deliver me out of the mud and do not let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me and out of the deep waters. 15 Do not let the water flood overwhelm me, nor let the deep swallow me up. And do not let the pit shut its mouth upon me.
16 Answer me, O Jehovah, because your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies turn to me, 17 and do not hide your face from your servant, because I am in distress. Answer me speedily. 18 Draw near to my soul and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.
19 You know my reproach and my shame and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you. 20 Reproach has 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 also gave me gall for my food and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22 Let their table be a trap before them, and to those at peace, let it be a snare.
23 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see and bow down their back continually.
24 Pour out your indignation upon them and let the fierceness of your anger overtake them. 25 Let their habitation be desolate. Let none dwell in their tents.
26 Because they persecute he whom you have struck and they tell of the sorrow of those whom you have wounded. 27 Add iniquity to their iniquity and do not let them come into your righteousness.
28 Let them be blotted out of the book of life and not be written with the righteous.
29 But I am poor and sorrowful. Let your salvation, O God, set me up on high. 30 I will praise the name of God with a song and will extol him with thanksgiving, 31 and it will please Jehovah better than an ox, or a bullock that has horns and hoofs.
32 The meek have seen it and are glad. You* who seek after God, let your* heart live. 33 Because Jehovah hears the needy and does not despise his prisoners.
34 Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves in it. 35 Because God will save Zion and build the cities of Judah. And they will abide there and have it in possession. 36 The seed also of his servants will inherit it and those who love his name will dwell in it.