16. 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.
17. Hear me, O Lord, for your mercy is kind. Look upon me, according to the fullness of your compassion.
18. And do not turn your face away from your servant, for I am in trouble: heed me quickly.
19. Attend to my soul, and free it. Rescue me, because of my enemies.
20. You know my reproach, and my confusion, and my reverence.
21. 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.
22. And they gave me gall for my food. And in my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
23. Let their table be a snare before them, and a retribution, and a scandal.