1<\/sup>Unto the end. For those who will be changed: of David. Save me, O God, for the waters have entered, even to my soul.<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>I have become stuck in a deep quagmire, and there is no firm footing. I have arrived at the height of the sea, and a tempest has overwhelmed me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>I have endured hardships, while crying out. My jaws have become hoarse; my eyes have failed. Meanwhile, I hope in my God.<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>Those who hate me without cause have been multiplied beyond the hairs of my head. My enemies, who persecuted me unjustly, have been strengthened. Then I was required to pay for what I did not take.<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>O God, you know my foolishness, and my offenses have not been hidden from you.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>Let those who wait for you, O Lord, the Lord of hosts, not be shamed in me. Let those who seek you, O God of Israel, not be confounded over me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>For because of you, I have endured reproach; confusion has covered my face.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>I have become a stranger to my brothers and a sojourner to the sons of my mother.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>For zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproached you have fallen upon me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>And I covered my soul with fasting, and it has become a reproach to me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>And I put on a haircloth as my garment, and I became a parable to them.<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>Those who sat at the gate spoke against me, and those who drank wine made me their song.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>But as for me, truly, my prayer is to you, O Lord. This time has pleased you well, O God. In the multitude of your mercy, in the truth of your salvation, hear me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>Rescue me from the quagmire, so that I may not become trapped. Free me from those who hate me and from deep waters.<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>Do not allow the tempest of water to submerge me, nor the deep to absorb me. And do not allow the well to close in on me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>Hear me, O Lord, for your mercy is kind. Look upon me, according to the fullness of your compassion.<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>And do not turn your face away from your servant, for I am in trouble: heed me quickly.<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>Attend to my soul, and free it. Rescue me, because of my enemies.<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>You know my reproach, and my confusion, and my reverence.<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>All those who trouble me are in your sight; my heart has anticipated reproach and misery. And I sought for one who might grieve together with me, but there was no one, and for one who might console me, and I found no one.<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>And they gave me gall for my food. And in my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>Let their table be a snare before them, and a retribution, and a scandal.<\/span> <\/p>\n 23<\/sup>Let their eyes be darkened, so that they may not see, and may their back always be crooked.<\/span> <\/p>\n 24<\/sup>Pour out your indignation upon them, and may the fury of your anger take hold of them.<\/span> <\/p>\n 25<\/sup>May their dwelling place be deserted, and may there be no one who dwells in their tabernacles.<\/span> <\/p>\n 26<\/sup>For they persecuted whomever you struck. And they have added to the grief of my wounds.<\/span> <\/p>\n 27<\/sup>Assign an iniquity upon their iniquity, and may they not enter into your justice.<\/span> <\/p>\n 28<\/sup>Delete them from the Book of the Living, and let them not be written down with the just.<\/span> <\/p>\n 29<\/sup>I am poor and sorrowful, but your salvation, O God, has taken me up.<\/span> <\/p>\n 30<\/sup>I will praise the name of God with a canticle, and I will magnify him with praise.<\/span> <\/p>\n 31<\/sup>And it will please God more than a new calf producing horns and hoofs.<\/span> <\/p>\n 32<\/sup>Let the poor see and rejoice. Seek God, and your soul will live.<\/span> <\/p>\n 33<\/sup>For the Lord has heard the poor, and he has not despised his prisoners.<\/span> <\/p>\n 34<\/sup>Let the heavens and the earth praise him: the sea, and everything that crawls in it.<\/span> <\/p>\n 35<\/sup>For God will save Zion, and the cities of Judah will be built up. And they will dwell there, and they will acquire it by inheritance.<\/span> <\/p>\n 36<\/sup>And the offspring of his servants will possess it; and those who love his name will dwell in it.<\/span> <\/p>\n