5. O God, you know my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from you.
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 disgraced for my sake, O God of Israel.
7. Because for your sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face.
8. I have become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.
9. For the zeal of your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached you are fallen upon me.
10. When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
11. I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
12. They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
13. But as for me, my prayer is unto you, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of your mercy hear me, in the truth of your salvation.
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.
15. Let not the floodwater overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.
16. Hear me, O LORD; for your lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of your tender mercies.
17. And hide not your face from your servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
18. Draw near unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of my enemies.
19. You have known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: my adversaries are all before you.