Psalms

¹Unto the end. For those who will be changed: of David. ↗

²Save me, O God, for the waters have entered, even to my soul. ↗

³I have become stuck in a deep quagmire, and there is no firm footing. I have arrived at the height of the sea, and a tempest has overwhelmed me. ↗

⁴I have endured hardships, while crying out. My jaws have become hoarse; my eyes have failed. Meanwhile, I hope in my God. ↗

⁵Those who hate me without cause have been multiplied beyond the hairs of my head. My enemies, who persecuted me unjustly, have been strengthened. Then I was required to pay for what I did not take. ↗

⁶O God, you know my foolishness, and my offenses have not been hidden from you. ↗

⁷Let those who wait for you, O Lord, the Lord of hosts, not be shamed in me. Let those who seek you, O God of Israel, not be confounded over me. ↗

⁸For because of you, I have endured reproach; confusion has covered my face. ↗

⁹I have become a stranger to my brothers and a sojourner to the sons of my mother. ↗

¹⁰For zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproached you have fallen upon me. ↗

¹¹And I covered my soul with fasting, and it has become a reproach to me. ↗

¹²And I put on a haircloth as my garment, and I became a parable to them. ↗

¹³Those who sat at the gate spoke against me, and those who drank wine made me their song. ↗

¹⁴But as for me, truly, my prayer is to you, O Lord. This time has pleased you well, O God. In the multitude of your mercy, in the truth of your salvation, hear me. ↗

¹⁵Rescue me from the quagmire, so that I may not become trapped. Free me from those who hate me and from deep waters. ↗

¹⁶Do not allow the tempest of water to submerge me, nor the deep to absorb me. And do not allow the well to close in on me. ↗

¹⁷Hear me, O Lord, for your mercy is kind. Look upon me, according to the fullness of your compassion. ↗

¹⁸And do not turn your face away from your servant, for I am in trouble: heed me quickly. ↗

¹⁹Attend to my soul, and free it. Rescue me, because of my enemies. ↗

²⁰You know my reproach, and my confusion, and my reverence. ↗

²¹All those who trouble me are in your sight; my heart has anticipated reproach and misery. And I sought for one who might grieve together with me, but there was no one, and for one who might console me, and I found no one. ↗

²²And they gave me gall for my food. And in my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink. ↗

²³Let their table be a snare before them, and a retribution, and a scandal. ↗

²⁴Let their eyes be darkened, so that they may not see, and may their back always be crooked. ↗

²⁵Pour out your indignation upon them, and may the fury of your anger take hold of them. ↗

²⁶May their dwelling place be deserted, and may there be no one who dwells in their tabernacles. ↗

²⁷For they persecuted whomever you struck. And they have added to the grief of my wounds. ↗

²⁸Assign an iniquity upon their iniquity, and may they not enter into your justice. ↗

²⁹Delete them from the Book of the Living, and let them not be written down with the just. ↗

³⁰I am poor and sorrowful, but your salvation, O God, has taken me up. ↗

³¹I will praise the name of God with a canticle, and I will magnify him with praise. ↗

³²And it will please God more than a new calf producing horns and hoofs. ↗

³³Let the poor see and rejoice. Seek God, and your soul will live. ↗

³⁴For the Lord has heard the poor, and he has not despised his prisoners. ↗

³⁵Let the heavens and the earth praise him: the sea, and everything that crawls in it. ↗

³⁶For God will save Zion, and the cities of Judah will be built up. And they will dwell there, and they will acquire it by inheritance. ↗

³⁷And the offspring of his servants will possess it; and those who love his name will dwell in it. ↗