[1] Save me, O God; for the waters are come in to my soul.
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[2] I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
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[3] I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: my eyes fail while I wait for my God.
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[4] They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: they that would destroy me, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
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[5] O God, you know my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from you.
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[6] Let not them that wait on you, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek you be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
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[7] Because for your sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face.
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[8] I am become a stranger to my brothers, and an alien to my mother’s children.
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[9] For the zeal of your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached you are fallen on me.
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[10] When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
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[11] I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
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[12] They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
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[13] But as for me, my prayer is to you, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of your mercy hear me, in the truth of your salvation.
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[14] Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
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[15] Let not the flood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth on me.
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[16] Hear me, O LORD; for your loving kindness is good: turn to me according to the multitude of your tender mercies.
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[17] And hide not your face from your servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
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[18] Draw near to my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of my enemies.
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[19] You have known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: my adversaries are all before you.
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[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.
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[21] They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
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[22] Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
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[23] Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
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[24] Pour out your indignation on them, and let your wrathful anger take hold of them.
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[25] Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
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[26] For they persecute him whom you have smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom you have wounded.
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[27] Add iniquity to their iniquity: and let them not come into your righteousness.
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[28] Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
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[29] But I am poor and sorrowful: let your salvation, O God, set me up on high.
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[30] I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
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[31] This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that has horns and hoofs.
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[32] The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
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[33] For the LORD hears the poor, and despises not his prisoners.
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[34] Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moves therein.
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[35] For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.
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[36] The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.
