1. Unto the end, for them that shall be changed; for David.
2. Save me, O God: for the waters are come in even unto my soul.
3. I stick fast in the mire of the deep: and there is no sure standing. I am come into the depth of the sea: and a tempest hath overwhelmed me.
4. I have laboured with crying; my jaws are become hoarse: my eyes have failed, whilst I hope in my God.
5. They are multiplied above the hairs of my head, who hate me without cause. My enemies are grown strong who have wrongfully persecuted me: then did I pay that which I took not away.
6. O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my offences are not hidden from thee:
7. Let not them be ashamed for me, who look for thee, O Lord, the Lord of hosts. Let them not be confounded on my account, who seek thee, O God of Israel.
8. Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
9. I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to the sons of my mother.
10. For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up: and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
11. And I covered my soul in fasting: and it was made a reproach to me.
12. And I made haircloth my garment: and I became a byword to them.
13. They that sat in the gate spoke against me: and they that drank wine made me their song.
14. But as for me, my prayer is to thee, O Lord; for the time of thy good pleasure, O God. In the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
15. Draw me out of the mire, that I may not stick fast: deliver me from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
16. Let not the tempest of water drown me, nor the deep swallow me up: and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
17. Hear me, O Lord, for thy mercy is kind; look upon me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
18. And turn not away thy face from thy servant: for I am in trouble, hear me speedily.