Psalms 68:6-20

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 thine 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.