Psalms 68:5-14

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.