[1] Save me, God,    For the waters have come up to my neck! [2] I sink in
deep mire, where there is no foothold.	  I have come into deep waters,
where the floods overflow me. [3] I am weary with my crying.	My throat
is dry.    My eyes fail, looking for my God. [4] Those who hate me without
a cause are more than the hairs of my	    head.    Those who want to cut
me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are       mighty.	  I have to restore
what I didn`t take away. [5] God, you know my foolishness.    My sins
aren`t hidden from you. [6] Don`t let those who wait for you be put to
shame through me,	Lord Yahweh of Hosts.	 Don`t let those who seek
you be brought to dishonor through me, God	 of Israel. [7] Because for
your sake, I have borne reproach.    Shame has covered my face. [8] I have
become a stranger to my brothers,    An alien to my mother`s children. [9]
For the zeal of your house consumes me.    The reproaches of those who
reproach you have fallen on me. [10] When I wept and I fasted,	  That was
to my reproach. [11] When I made sackcloth my clothing,    I became a
byword to them. [12] Those who sit in the gate talk about me.	 I am the
song of the drunkards. [13] But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in
an acceptable	    time.    God, in the abundance of your lovingkindness,
answer me in the truth	     of your salvation. [14] Deliver me out of the
mire, and don`t let me sink.	Let me be delivered from those who hate me,
and out of the deep	  waters. [15] Don`t let the flood waters overwhelm
me, Neither let the deep swallow me up.    Don`t let the pit shut its mouth
on me. [16] Answer me, Yahweh, for your lovingkindness is good.   
According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me. [17] Don`t
hide your face from your servant,    For I am in distress. Answer me
speedily! [18] Draw near to my soul, and redeem it.    Ransom me because of
my enemies. [19] You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor.    My
adversaries are all before you. [20] Reproach has broken my heart, and I am
full of heaviness.    I looked for some to take pity, but there was none;  
 For comforters, but I found none. [21] They also gave me gall for my food.
   In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink. [22] Let their table before
them become a snare.	May it become a retribution and a trap. [23] Let
their eyes be darkened, so that they can`t see.    Make their loins
continually to shake. [24] Pour out your indignation on them.	 Let the
fierceness of your anger overtake them. [25] Let their habitation be
desolate.    Let no one dwell in their tents. [26] For they persecute him
whom you have wounded.	  They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have
hurt. [27] Charge them with crime upon crime.	 Don`t let them come into
your righteousness. [28] Let them be blotted out of the book of life,	
And not be written with the righteous. [29] But I am in pain and distress. 
  Let your salvation, God, protect me. [30] I will praise the name of God
with a song,	And will magnify him with thanksgiving. [31] It will please
Yahweh better than an ox,    Or a bull that has horns and hoofs. [32] The
humble have seen it, and are glad.    You who seek after God, let your
heart live. [33] For Yahweh hears the needy,	And doesn`t despise his
captive people. [34] Let heaven and earth praise him;	 The seas, and
everything that moves therein! [35] For God will save Zion, and build the
cities of Judah.    They shall settle there, and own it. [36] The children
also of his servants shall inherit it.	  Those who love his name shall
dwell therein.	    Psalm 70	   For the Chief Musician. By David. A
reminder.