Psalms 69:2-22

²I am set in the slime of the depth; and there is no substance. I came into the depth of the sea; and the tempest drenched or drowned me down.

³I travailed crying, my cheeks were made hoarse; mine eyes failed, the while I hope/d into my God.

⁴They that hated me without cause; were multiplied above the hairs of mine head. Mine enemies that pursued me unjustly were comforted; I paid then for those things, which I ravished not.

⁵God, thou knowest mine unknow-ing; and my trespasses be not hid from thee.

⁶Lord, Lord of virtues; they, that abide thee, be not ashamed in me. God of Israel; they, that seek thee, be not shamed on me.

⁷For I suffered shame for thee; shame covered my face.

⁸I am made a stranger to my brethren; and a pilgrim to the sons of my mother.

⁹For the fervent love of thine house ate me; and the shames of men saying shames to thee fell on me.

¹⁰And I covered my soul with fasting; and it was made into shame to me.

¹¹And I putted or put for my cloth an hair-shirt; and I am made to them into a parable.

¹²They, that sat in the gate, spake against me; and they, that drank wine, sang of me.

¹³But Lord, I dress my prayer to thee; God, I abide the time of good pleasance. Hear thou me in the multitude of thy mercy; in the truth of thine health.

¹⁴Deliver thou me from the clay, that I be not fast set-in; deliver thou me from them that hate me, and from the depths or deepness of waters.

¹⁵The tempest of water drench not me down, neither the depth swallow me; neither the pit make strait his mouth on me.

¹⁶Lord, hear thou me, for thy mercy is benign; after the multitude of thy merciful doings behold thou into me.

¹⁷And turn not away thy face from thy servant; for I am in tribulation, hear thou me swiftly.

¹⁸Give thou attention to my soul, and deliver thou it; for mine enemies, deliver thou me.

¹⁹Thou knowest my reproof, and my despising; and my shame. All that trouble me be in thy sight;

²⁰mine heart abode in shame, and wretchedness. And I abode him, that was sorry together with me, and none was; and that should comfort me, and I found not.

²¹And they gave gall into my meat; and in my thirst they gave to me drink with vinegar.

²²The board of them be made before them into a snare; and into yieldings, and into cause of stumbling.