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The Waters Have Come Up to My Neck!
{To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David.} Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
{To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David.} Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
I sink in deep mire,
where there is no foothold;
I have come into deep waters,
and the flood sweeps over me.
where there is no foothold;
I have come into deep waters,
and the flood sweeps over me.
I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
I am weary with my crying out;
my throat is parched.
My eyes grow dim
with waiting for my God.
my throat is parched.
My eyes grow dim
with waiting for my God.
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
More in number than the hairs of my head
are those who hate me without cause;
mighty are those who would destroy me,
those who attack me with lies.
What I did not steal
must I now restore?
are those who hate me without cause;
mighty are those who would destroy me,
those who attack me with lies.
What I did not steal
must I now restore?
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.
O God, you know my folly;
the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you.
the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you.
O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
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.
O Lord God of hosts;
let not those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me,
O God of Israel.
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.
For it is for your sake that I have borne reproach,
that dishonor has covered my face.
that dishonor has covered my face.
Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
I have become a stranger to my brothers,
an alien to my mother’s sons.
an alien to my mother’s sons.
I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.
For zeal for your house has consumed me,
and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
When I made sackcloth my clothing,
I became a byword to them.
I became a byword to them.
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
I am the talk of those who sit in the gate,
and the drunkards make songs about me.
and the drunkards make songs about me.
They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
But as for me, my prayer is to you, O Lord.
At an acceptable time, O God,
in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness.
At an acceptable time, O God,
in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness.
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.
Deliver me
from sinking in the mire;
let me be delivered from my enemies
and from the deep waters.
from sinking in the mire;
let me be delivered from my enemies
and from the deep waters.
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.
Let not the flood sweep over me,
or the deep swallow me up,
or the pit close its mouth over me.
or the deep swallow me up,
or the pit close its mouth over me.
Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
Answer me, O Lord, for your steadfast love is good;
according to your abundant mercy, turn to me.
according to your abundant mercy, turn to me.
Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
Hide not your face from your servant,
for I am in distress; make haste to answer me.
for I am in distress; make haste to answer me.
And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
Draw near to my soul, redeem me;
ransom me because of my enemies!
ransom me because of my enemies!
Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.
You know my reproach,
and my shame and my dishonor;
my foes are all known to you.
and my shame and my dishonor;
my foes are all known to you.
Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.
Reproaches have broken my heart,
so that I am in despair.
I looked for pity, but there was none,
and for comforters, but I found none.
so that I am in despair.
I looked for pity, but there was none,
and for comforters, but I found none.
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.
They gave me poison for food,
and for my thirst they gave me sour wine to drink.
and for my thirst they gave me sour wine to drink.
They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see,
and make their loins tremble continually.
and make their loins tremble continually.
Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
Pour out your indignation upon them,
and let your burning anger overtake them.
and let your burning anger overtake them.
Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
May their camp be a desolation;
let no one dwell in their tents.
let no one dwell in their tents.
Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
For they persecute him whom you have struck down,
and they recount the pain of those you have wounded.
and they recount the pain of those you have wounded.
For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.
Let them be blotted out of the book of the living;
let them not be enrolled among the righteous.
let them not be enrolled among the righteous.
Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
But I am afflicted and in pain;
let your salvation, O God, set me on high!
let your salvation, O God, set me on high!
But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
I will praise the name of God with a song;
I will magnify him with thanksgiving.
I will magnify him with thanksgiving.
I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
This will please the Lord more than an ox
or a bull with horns and hoofs.
or a bull with horns and hoofs.
This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
When the humble see it they will be glad;
you who seek God, let your hearts revive.
you who seek God, let your hearts revive.
The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
For the Lord hears the needy
and does not despise his own people who are prisoners.
and does not despise his own people who are prisoners.
For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
Let heaven and earth praise him,
the seas and everything that moves in them.
the seas and everything that moves in them.
Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.
For God will save Zion
and build up the cities of Judah,
and people shall dwell there and possess it;
and build up the cities of Judah,
and people shall dwell there and possess it;
For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.