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.
15. Let not the violent force of the waters overcome me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
16. Hear me, O Lord, for thy mercy is perceptible, look upon me according to the multitude of thy acts of compassion
17. And hide not thy face from thy slave, for I am in trouble; hear me speedily.
18. Draw near unto my soul and redeem it; deliver me because of my enemies.
19. Thou hast known my reproach and my shame and my dishonour; my adversaries are all before thee.