5. O God, thou knowest my foolishness, and my guiltiness is not hid from thee.
6. Do not let those that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of the hosts, be ashamed for my sake; do not let those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
7. Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face.
8. I am become a stranger unto my brethren and an alien unto my mother’s sons.
9. For the zeal of thy house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
10. When I wept with fasting of my soul, thou hast been a reproach unto me.
11. I made sackcloth also my garment, and I became a proverb to them.
12. They that sat in the gate spoke against me, and I was the song of the drunkards.
13. But I corrected my prayer unto thee, O Lord, in the time of thy good pleasure; O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy saving health.
14. Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not drown; let me be delivered from those that hate me and out of the deep waters.