1 ¶ Save me, O God; for the waters come up to my neck.

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

3 I am weary of calling: my throat is dry: my eyesight is blurred as I wait for my God.

4 Those who hate me for no reason are more numerous than the hairs on my head: those who would destroy me, wrongfully being my enemies, are powerful: I have to pay back what I did not steal.

5 O God, you know my foolishness; and my sins are not hidden from you.

6 Do not let those who wait on you, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: do not let those who seek you be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.

7 Because I have borne reproach for your sake; shame has covered my face.

8 I have become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to my mother’s children.

9 For the zeal of your house has eaten me up; and the insults of those who insult you have fallen upon me.

10 When I wept, and humbled my soul with fasting, I was jeered at and humiliated.

11 I made sackcloth my garment; and I became an object of scorn to them.

12 Those who sit in the gate speak evil of me; and drunkards make up songs about me.

13 ¶ But as for me, my prayer is to you, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of your mercy, answer me with your sure salvation.

14 Deliver me from the mire, and do not let me sink: let me be delivered from those who hate me, and from out of deep waters.

15 Do not let the flood of water overwhelm me, or the deep water swallow me, and do not let the grave close its mouth over me.

16 Hear me, O LORD; for your loving-kindness is good: turn to me according to the multitude of your tender mercies.

17 And do not hide your face from your servant; for I am in trouble: answer me quickly.

18 Draw near to my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of my enemies.

19 You known how I am insulted, put to shame, and disgraced: my adversaries are all before you.

20 Reproach has broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: I looked for sympathy, but there was none; and for comforters, but cannot find any.

21 They put gall in my food; and for my thirst gave me vinegar to drink.

22 ¶ Let their table become a snare for them: and let their banquet become a trap.

23 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see; and let their loins continually shake.

24 Pour out your indignation upon them, and let your wrathful anger take hold of them.

25 Let their dwelling place be desolate; and let no one live in their tents.

26 For they persecute the one you struck; and they talk about the pains of those you have wounded.

27 Give them the punishment their sin deserves: and do not let them enter into your righteousness.

28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be listed with the righteous.

29 But I am poor and sorrowful: by your saving power, O God, lift me to a safe height.

30 ¶ I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.

31 And it will please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that has horns and hoofs.

32 The humble will see it, and rejoice: and the heart of you who seek God will live.

33 For the LORD hears the poor, and does not despise those of his who are prisoners.

34 Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and everything moving in them.

35 For God will save Zion, and rebuild the cities of Judah: that his servants may live there, and have it in possession.

36 The descendants of his servants will also inherit it: and those who love his name will dwell in it.

Psalm 70

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.

1 ¶ Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O LORD.

2 Let those who seek my life be ashamed and confounded: let those who desire my hurt be turned backward, and thrown into confusion.

3 Let those who say, Aha, aha! be turned back and appalled by their own shame.

4 Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you: and let those who love your salvation continually say, God is great.

5 But I am poor and needy: come to me quickly, O God: you are my help and my deliverer; O LORD, do not delay.