| 1: Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
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| 2: I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come
into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. |
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I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail
while I wait for my God. |
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| 4: They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of
mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully,
are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away. |
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| 5: O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid
from thee. |
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| 6: Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be
ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my
sake, O God of Israel. |
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| 7: Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered
my face. |
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| 8: I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my
mother's children. |
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| 9: For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the
reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me. |
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| 10: When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to
my reproach. |
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| 11: I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to
them. |
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| 12: They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the
song of the drunkards. |
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| 13: But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an
acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the
truth of thy salvation. |
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| 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. |
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| 15: Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep
swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. |
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| 16: Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me
according to the multitude of thy tender mercies. |
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| 17: And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble:
hear me speedily. |
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| 18: Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of
mine enemies. |
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| 19: Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour:
mine adversaries are all before thee. |
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| 20: Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness:
and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for
comforters, but I found none. |
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| 21: They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they
gave me vinegar to drink. |
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| 22: Let their table become a snare before them: and that which
should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. |
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| 23: Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their
loins continually to shake. |
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| 24: Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful
anger take hold of them. |
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| 25: Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their
tents. |
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| 26: For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk
to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded. |
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| 27: Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into
thy righteousness. |
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| 28: Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be
written with the righteous. |
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| 29: But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me
up on high. |
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| 30: I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify
him with thanksgiving. |
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| 31: This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock
that hath horns and hoofs. |
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| 32: The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall
live that seek God. |
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| 33: For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his
prisoners. |
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| 34: Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and everything
that moveth therein. |
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| 35: For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah:
that they may dwell there, and have it in possession. |
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| 36: The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that
love his name shall dwell therein. |
