5. O God, you know my folly;the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you.
6. Let not those who hope in you be put to shame through me,O Lord God of hosts;let not those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me,O God of Israel.
7. For it is for your sake that I have borne reproach,that dishonor has covered my face.
8. I have become a stranger to my brothers,an alien to my mother’s sons.
9. For zeal for your house has consumed me,and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
10. When I wept and humbled my soul with fasting,it became my reproach.
11. When I made sackcloth my clothing,I became a byword to them.
12. I am the talk of those who sit in the gate,and the drunkards make songs about me.
13. But as for me, my prayer is to you, O Lord.At an acceptable time, O God,in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness.
14. Deliver mefrom sinking in the mire; let me be delivered from my enemiesand from the deep waters.
15. Let not the flood sweep over me,or the deep swallow me up,or the pit close its mouth over me.
16. Answer me, O Lord, for your steadfast love is good;according to your abundant mercy, turn to me.