Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.

 2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into ^adeep waters, where the floods overflow me.

 3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

 4 They that ^ahate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.

 5 O God, thou knowest my ^afoolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.

 6 Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.

 7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

 8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.

 9 For the ^azeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the ^breproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

 10 When I wept, and chastened my soul with ^afasting, that was to my reproach.

 11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.

 12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the ^asong of the drunkards.

 13 But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Lord, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.

 14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.