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<div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v23069002" class="ver">2</span>Save me, God,</p> <p class="sl1">for the waters<a id="rfn23069002-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn23069002-1">*</a> have reached my neck.<a id="ren23069002-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23069002-a">a</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23069003" class="ver">3</span>I have sunk into the mire of the deep,</p> <p class="sl1">where there is no foothold.</p> <p class="sl">I have gone down to the watery depths;</p> <p class="sl1">the flood overwhelms me.<a id="ren23069003-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23069003-b">b</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23069004" class="ver">4</span>I am weary with crying out;</p> <p class="sl1">my throat is parched.</p> <p class="sl">My eyes fail,</p> <p class="sl1">from looking for my God.<a id="ren23069004-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23069004-c">c</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23069005" class="ver">5</span>More numerous than the hairs of my head</p> <p class="sl1">are those who hate me without cause.<a id="ren23069005-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23069005-d">d</a></p> <p class="sl">Those who would destroy me are mighty,</p> <p class="sl1">my enemies without reason.</p> <p class="sl">Must I now restore</p> <p class="sl1">what I did not steal?<a id="rfn23069005-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn23069005-1">*</a></p> </div> <p class="chsect">II</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v23069006" class="ver">6</span>God, you know my folly;</p> <p class="sl1">my faults are not hidden from you.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23069007" class="ver">7</span>Let those who wait in hope for you, <span class="tetr">Lord</span> of hosts,</p> <p class="sl1">not be shamed because of me.</p> <p class="sl">Let those who seek you, God of Israel,<a id="ren23069007-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23069007-e">e</a></p> <p class="sl1">not be disgraced because of me.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23069008" class="ver">8</span>For it is on your account I bear insult,</p> <p class="sl1">that disgrace covers my face.<a id="ren23069008-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23069008-f">f</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23069009" class="ver">9</span>I have become an outcast to my kindred,</p> <p class="sl1">a stranger to my mother’s children.<a id="ren23069009-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23069009-g">g</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23069010" class="ver">10</span>Because zeal for your house has consumed me,<a id="rfn23069010-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn23069010-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">I am scorned by those who scorn you.<a class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn23069010-1">*</a><a id="ren23069010-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23069010-h">h</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23069011" class="ver">11</span>When I humbled my spirit with fasting,<a id="ren23069011-i" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23069011-i">i</a></p> <p class="sl1">this led only to scorn.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23069012" class="ver">12</span>When I clothed myself in sackcloth;</p> <p class="sl1">I became a byword for them.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23069013" class="ver">13</span>Those who sit in the gate gossip about me;</p> <p class="sl1">drunkards make me the butt of songs.</p> </div> <p class="chsect">III</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v23069014" class="ver">14</span>But I will pray to you, <span class="tetr">Lord</span>,</p> <p class="sl1">at a favorable time.</p> <p class="sl">God, in your abundant kindness, answer me</p> <p class="sl1">with your sure deliverance.<a id="ren23069014-j" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23069014-j">j</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23069015" class="ver">15</span>Rescue me from the mire,<a id="ren23069015-k" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23069015-k">k</a></p> <p class="sl1">and do not let me sink.</p> <p class="sl">Rescue me from those who hate me</p> <p class="sl1">and from the watery depths.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23069016" class="ver">16</span>Do not let the flood waters overwhelm me,</p> <p class="sl1">nor the deep swallow me,</p> <p class="sl1">nor the pit close its mouth over me.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23069017" class="ver">17</span>Answer me, <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, in your generous love;</p> <p class="sl1">in your great mercy turn to me.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23069018" class="ver">18</span>Do not hide your face from your servant;</p> <p class="sl1">hasten to answer me, for I am in distress.<a id="ren23069018-l" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23069018-l">l</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23069019" class="ver">19</span>Come and redeem my life;</p> <p class="sl1">because of my enemies ransom me.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23069020" class="ver">20</span>You know my reproach, my shame, my disgrace;</p> <p class="sl1">before you stand all my foes.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23069021" class="ver">21</span>Insult has broken my heart, and I despair;</p> <p class="sl1">I looked for compassion, but there was none,<a id="ren23069021-m" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23069021-m">m</a></p> <p class="sl1">for comforters, but found none.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23069022" class="ver">22</span>Instead they gave me poison for my food;</p> <p class="sl1">and for my thirst they gave me vinegar.<a id="ren23069022-n" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23069022-n">n</a></p> </div> <p class="chsect">IV</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v23069023" class="ver">23</span>May their own table be a snare for them,</p> <p class="sl1">and their communion offerings a trap.<a id="ren23069023-o" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23069023-o">o</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23069024" class="ver">24</span>Make their eyes so dim they cannot see;</p> <p class="sl1">keep their backs ever feeble.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23069025" class="ver">25</span>Pour out your wrath upon them;</p> <p class="sl1">let the fury of your anger overtake them.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23069026" class="ver">26</span>Make their camp desolate,</p> <p class="sl1">with none to dwell in their tents.<a id="ren23069026-p" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23069026-p">p</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23069027" class="ver">27</span>For they pursued the one you struck,</p> <p class="sl1">added to the pain of the one you wounded.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23069028" class="ver">28</span>Heap punishment upon their punishment;</p> <p class="sl1">let them gain from you no vindication.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23069029" class="ver">29</span>May they be blotted from the book of life;</p> <p class="sl1">not registered among the just!<a id="ren23069029-q" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23069029-q">q</a></p> </div> <p class="chsect">V</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v23069030" class="ver">30</span>But here I am miserable and in pain;</p> <p class="sl1">let your saving help protect me, God,</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23069031" class="ver">31</span><a id="rfn23069031-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn23069031-1">*</a>That I may praise God’s name in song</p> <p class="sl1">and glorify it with thanksgiving.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23069032" class="ver">32</span>That will please the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> more than oxen,</p> <p class="sl1">more than bulls with horns and hooves:<a id="ren23069032-r" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23069032-r">r</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23069033" class="ver">33</span>“See, you lowly ones, and be glad;</p> <p class="sl1">you who seek God, take heart!<a id="ren23069033-s" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23069033-s">s</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23069034" class="ver">34</span>For the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> hears the poor,</p> <p class="sl1">and does not spurn those in bondage.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23069035" class="ver">35</span>Let the heaven and the earth praise him,</p> <p class="sl1">the seas and whatever moves in them!”</p> </div> <p class="chsect">VI</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v23069036" class="ver">36</span>For God will rescue Zion,</p> <p class="sl1">and rebuild the cities of Judah.<a id="ren23069036-t" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23069036-t">t</a></p> <p class="sl">They will dwell there and possess it;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23069037" class="ver">37</span>the descendants of God’s servants will inherit it;</p> <p class="sl1">those who love God’s name will dwell in it.<a id="ren23069037-u" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23069037-u">u</a></p> </div> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this 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