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.
14. Deliver me from the mud and do not let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me and from the watery depths.
15. Do not let the torrent of waters flood over me, or the deep swallow me, or the pit close its mouth over me.
16. Answer me, O Yahweh, because your loyal love is good; according to your abundant mercies, turn to me,
17. and do not hide your face from your servant. Because I am in trouble, answer me quickly.
18. Draw near to my soul; redeem it. Because of my enemies, ransom me.
19. You know my reproach, my shame and my disgrace. Fully known to you are all my adversaries.