Save Me, O God

To the choirmaster: according to tLilies. Of David.

¹Save me, O God!

For uthe waters have come up to my neck.1

²I sink in deep vmire,

where there is no foothold;

I have come into deep waters,

and the flood wsweeps over me.

³xI am weary with my crying out;

ymy throat is parched.

zMy eyes grow dim

with awaiting for my God.

⁴bMore in number than the hairs of my head

are cthose who hate me dwithout cause;

mighty are those who would destroy me,

ethose who attack me with lies.

What I did not steal

must I now restore?

⁵O God, you know my folly;

the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you.

⁶Let not those who hope in you fbe 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.

⁷For it is gfor your sake that I have borne reproach,

that dishonor has covered my face.

⁸I have become ha stranger to my brothers,

an alien to my mother's sons.

⁹For izeal for your house has consumed me,

and jthe reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

¹⁰When I wept and humbled2 my soul with fasting,

it became my reproach.

¹¹When I made ksackcloth my clothing,

I became la byword to them.

¹²I am the talk of those who msit in the gate,

and the drunkards make nsongs about me.

¹³But as for me, my oprayer is to you, O Lord.

At pan acceptable time, O God,

in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness.

¹⁴Deliver me

from sinking in qthe mire;

rlet me be delivered from my enemies

and from sthe deep waters.

¹⁵Let not the flood sweep over me,

or the deep swallow me up,

or tthe pit close uits mouth over me.

¹⁶Answer me, O Lord, for your vsteadfast love is good;

according to your abundant wmercy, xturn to me.

¹⁷yHide not your face from your servant,

zfor I am in distress; amake haste to answer me.

¹⁸Draw near to my soul, redeem me;

ransom me because of my enemies!

¹⁹You know my breproach,

and my shame and my dishonor;

my foes are all known to you.

²⁰bReproaches have broken my heart,

so that I am in cdespair.

I dlooked for epity, but there was none,

and for fcomforters, but I found none.

²¹They gave me gpoison for food,

and for my thirst they gave me hsour wine to drink.

²²iLet their own jtable before them become a snare;

kand when they are at peace, let it become a trap.3

²³lLet their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see,

mand make their loins tremble continually.

²⁴Pour out your indignation upon them,

and let your burning anger overtake them.

²⁵nMay their camp be a desolation;

let no one dwell in their tents.

²⁶For they opersecute him whom pyou have struck down,

and they recount the pain of qthose you have wounded.

²⁷rAdd to them punishment upon punishment;

may they have no acquittal from you.4

²⁸Let them be sblotted out of the book of the living;

let them not be tenrolled among the righteous.

²⁹But I am afflicted and in pain;

let your salvation, O God, uset me on high!

³⁰I will vpraise the name of God with a song;

I will wmagnify him with xthanksgiving.

³¹This will yplease the Lord more than an ox

or a bull zwith horns and hoofs.

³²When athe humble see it they will be glad;

you who seek God, alet your hearts revive.

³³For the Lord hears the needy

and bdoes not despise his own people who are prisoners.

³⁴Let cheaven and earth praise him,

the seas and everything that moves in them.

³⁵For dGod will save Zion

and build up the cities of Judah,

and people shall dwell there and possess it;

³⁶ethe offspring of his servants shall inherit it,

and those who love his name shall dwell in it.