Psalms 68:6-16

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.