1. Save me, O God!For the waters have come up to my neck.
2. I sink in deep mire,where there is no foothold;I have come into deep waters,and the flood sweeps over me.
3. I am weary with my crying out; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dimwith waiting for my God.
4. More in number than the hairs of my headare those who hate me without cause;mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies.What I did not stealmust I now restore?
5. O God, you know my folly;the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you.
6. Let not those who hope in you be put to shame through me,O Lord God of hosts;let not those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me,O God of Israel.
7. For it is for your sake that I have borne reproach,that dishonor has covered my face.
8. I have become a stranger to my brothers,an alien to my mother’s sons.
9. For zeal for your house has consumed me,and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
10. When I wept and humbled my soul with fasting,it became my reproach.
11. When I made sackcloth my clothing,I became a byword to them.