Psalms 68:1-10

¹For the end, a Psalm of David, for alternate strains.

²Save me, O God; for the waters have come in to my soul.

³I am stuck fast in deep mire, and there is no standing: I am come in to the depths of the sea, and a storm has overwhelmed me.

⁴I am weary of crying, my throat has become hoarse; Mine eyes have failed by my waiting on my God.

⁵They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: My enemies that persecute me unrighteously are strengthened: Then I restored that which I took not away.

⁶O God, thou knowest my foolishness; And my transgressions are not hidden from thee.

⁷Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord of hosts, be ashamed on my account: let not them that seek thee, be ashamed on my account, O God of Israel.

⁸For I have suffered reproach for thy sake; Shame has covered my face.

⁹I became strange to my brethren, And a stranger to my mother’s children.

¹⁰For the zeal of thy house has eaten me up; And the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.