1. Save me, O God,for the waters have come up to my neck.
2. I sink in the miry depths,where there is no foothold.I have come into the deep waters;the floods engulf me.
3. I am worn out calling for help;my throat is parched.My eyes fail,looking for my God.
4. Those who hate me without reasonoutnumber the hairs of my head;many are my enemies without cause,those who seek to destroy me.I am forced to restorewhat I did not steal.
5. You, God, know my folly;my guilt is not hidden from you.
6. Lord, the Lord Almighty,may those who hope in younot be disgraced because of me;God of Israel,may those who seek younot be put to shame because of me.
7. For I endure scorn for your sake,and shame covers my face.
8. I am a foreigner to my own family,a stranger to my own mother’s children;
9. for zeal for your house consumes me,and the insults of those who insult you fall on me.
10. When I weep and fast,I must endure scorn;
11. when I put on sackcloth,people make sport of me.
12. Those who sit at the gate mock me,and I am the song of the drunkards.