1. Save me, O God, because waters have come up to my neck.
2. I sink in the mud of the deep, and there is no foothold. I have come to watery depths, and the torrent floods over me.
3. I am weary with my calling out; my throat is parched. My eyes are exhausted in my waiting for my God.
4. More numerous than the hairs of my head are those hating me without a cause. Those who are destroying me—my enemies wrongfully— are mighty. What I did not steal, I then must restore.
5. O God, you yourself know my foolishness, and my guilty deeds are not hidden from you.
6. Let those who wait for you not be put to shame because of me, O Lord Yahweh of hosts. Let those who seek you not be disgraced because of me, O God of Israel.
7. Because on account of you I have borne reproach; disgrace has covered my face.
8. I have become a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my mother’s sons,
9. because the zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those reproaching you have fallen on me.
10. When I wept in the fasting of my soul, it became reproaches for me.
11. When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became for them a byword.
12. Those sitting at the gate talk about me as also the songs of the drunkards.
13. But as for me, my prayer is to you, O Yahweh, for a favorable time, O God, according to the abundance of your loyal love. Answer me with the faithfulness of your salvation.