Psalms 68:5-15

⁵O God, you know my foolishness; and my transgressions are not hidden from you.

⁶Let not them that wait on you, O Lord of hosts, be ashamed on my account: let not them that seek you, be ashamed on my account, O God of Israel.

⁷For I have suffered reproach for your sake; shame has covered my face.

⁸I became strange to my brethren, and a stranger to my mother's children.

⁹For the zeal of your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached you are fallen upon me.

¹⁰And I bowed down my soul with fasting, and that was made my reproach.

¹¹And I put on sackcloth for my covering; and I became a proverb to them.

¹²They that sit in the gate talked against me, and they that drank wine sang against me.

¹³But I will cry to you, O Lord, in my prayer; O God, it is a propitious time: in the multitude of your mercy hear me, in the truth of your salvation.

¹⁴Save me from the mire, that I stick not in it: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and from the deep waters.

¹⁵Let not the waterflood drown me, nor let the deep swallow me up; neither let the well shut its mouth upon me.