1. Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck.
2. I sink in the miry depths, where there is no foothold. I have come into the deep waters; the floods engulf me.
3. I am worn out calling for help; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
4. Those who hate me without reason outnumber the hairs of my head; many are my enemies without cause, those who seek to destroy me. I am forced to restore what I did not steal.
5. You, God, know my folly; my guilt is not hidden from you.
6. Lord, the Lord Almighty, may those who hope in you not be disgraced because of me; God of Israel, may those who seek you not be put to shame because of me.
7. For I endure scorn for your sake, and shame covers my face.
8. I am a foreigner to my own family, a stranger to my own mother’s children;
9. for zeal for your house consumes me, and the insults of those who insult you fall on me.
10. When I weep and fast, I must endure scorn;
11. when I put on sackcloth, people make sport of me.
12. Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of the drunkards.