Psalms 69:5-17

⁵O God, you know my folly, my guilt is not hidden from you.

⁶Through me let not any be shamed, who wait for you, Lord God of hosts. Through me let not those be confounded who seek you, O God of Israel.

⁷It's in your cause that I have borne taunts, and my face has been covered with shame;

⁸I became to my kindred a foreigner, to my mother's sons a stranger.

⁹It was zeal for your house that consumed me, and the insults they hurled at you fell upon me.

¹⁰When I chastened myself with fasting, they took occasion to taunt me.

¹¹When I put on a garment of sackcloth, they made me the theme of a taunt-song.

¹²Those who sit in the gate make sport of me in the music of drunken songs.

¹³But I pray to you, Lord, for a time of favour. In your great love answer me; with your loyal help, save me

¹⁴from sinking down in the mire. Lift me out of the deep deep waters,

¹⁵that the rushing flood may not drown me, that the deep may not swallow me up, nor the pit close her mouth upon me.

¹⁶Answer me, Lord, in your gracious kindness, turn to me in your great compassion.

¹⁷Hide not your face from your servant, for I am in trouble; O answer me speedily.