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I sink in deep mire, where
there is
no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the
floods overflow me.
3
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
4
They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would
destroy me,
being
mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored
that
which
I took not away.
5
O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
6
Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not
those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
7
Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
8
I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.
9
For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached
thee are fallen upon me.
10
When I wept,
and chastened
my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
11
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
12
They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I
was
the song of the drunkards.
13
But as for me, my prayer
is
unto thee, O L
ORD
,
in
an acceptable time: O God, in the
multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
14
Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate
me, and out of the deep waters.
15
Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the
pit shut her mouth upon me.
16
Hear me, O L
ORD
; for thy lovingkindness
is
good: turn unto me according to the multitude
of thy tender mercies.
17
And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
18
Draw nigh unto my soul,
and
redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.
19
Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries
are
all before thee.
20
Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked
for some
to take
pity, but
there was
none; and for comforters, but I found none.
21
They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22
Let their table become a snare before them: and
that which should have been
for
their
welfare,
let it become
a trap.
23
Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
24
Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
25
Let their habitation be desolate;
and
let none dwell in their tents.
26
For they persecute
him
whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom
thou hast wounded.
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