Psalms 68:2-31

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.

¹¹And I bowed down my soul with fasting, And that was made my reproach.

¹²And I put on sackcloth for my covering; And I became a proverb to them.

¹³They that sit in the gate talked against me, And they that drank wine sang against me.

¹⁴But I will cry to thee, O Lord, in my prayer; O God, it is a propitious time: in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, In the truth of thy salvation.

¹⁵Save me from the mire, that I stick not in it: Let me be delivered from them that hate me, and from the deep waters.

¹⁶Let not the waterflood drown me, Nor let the deep swallow me up; Neither let the well shut its mouth upon me.

¹⁷Hear me, O Lord; for thy mercy is good: According to the multitude of thy compassions look upon me.

¹⁸And turn not away thy face from thy servant; For I am afflicted: hear me speedily.

¹⁹Draw nigh to my soul and redeem it: Deliver me because of mine enemies.

²⁰For thou knowest my reproach, And my shame, and my confusion; All that afflict me are before thee.

²¹My soul has waited for reproach and misery; And I waited for one to grieve with me, but there was none; And for one to comfort me, but I found none.

²²They gave me also gall for my food, And made me drink vinegar for my thirst.

²³Let their table before them be for a snare, And for a recompense, and for a stumbling block.

²⁴Let their eyes be darkened that they should not see; And bow down their back continually.

²⁵Pour out thy wrath upon them, And let the fury of thine anger take hold on them.

²⁶Let their habitation be made desolate; And let there be no inhabitant in their tents:

²⁷Because they persecuted him whom thou hast smitten; And they have added to the grief of my wounds.

²⁸Add iniquity to their iniquity; And let them not come into thy righteousness.

²⁹Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, And let them not be written with the righteous.

³⁰I am poor and sorrowful; But the salvation of thy countenance has helped me.

³¹I will praise the name of my God with a song, I will magnify him with praise;