Psalms 69:4-16

⁴They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.

⁵Thou, O God, knowest my foolishness, and my trespasses are not hidden from thee.

⁶Let not them that wait on thee, Lord, Jehovah of hosts, be ashamed through me; let not those that seek thee be confounded through me, O God of Israel.

⁷Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; confusion hath covered my face.

⁸I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's sons;

⁹For the zeal of thy house hath devoured me, and the reproaches of them that reproach thee have fallen upon me.

¹⁰And I wept, my soul was fasting: that also was to my reproach; —

¹¹And I made sackcloth my garment: then I became a proverb to them.

¹²They that sit in the gate talk of me, and I am the song of the drunkards.

¹³But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, Jehovah, in an acceptable time: O God, in the abundance of thy loving-kindness answer me, according to the truth of thy salvation:

¹⁴Deliver me out of the mire, let me not sink; let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the depths of waters.

¹⁵Let not the flood of waters overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up; and let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.

¹⁶Answer me, O Jehovah; for thy loving-kindness is good: according to the abundance of thy tender mercies, turn toward me;