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.
20. Reproach has broken my heart and I am sick. And I hoped for sympathy, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.
21. They also gave me gall for food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22. Let their table before them be a trap, and their times of peace a snare.
23. Let their eyes be dark so they cannot see, and make their loins continually tremble.
24. Pour out your indignation on them, and let your burning anger overtake them.