⁵ God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren't hidden from you.

⁶ Don't let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord Yahweh of Armies. 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 loving kindness, 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 loving kindness 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. Let their backs be continually bent.

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. For the Chief Musician. By David. A reminder.

¹ Hurry, God, to deliver me. Come quickly to help me, Yahweh.

² Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul. Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.

³ Let them be turned because of their shame Who say, "Aha! Aha!"

⁴ Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let those who love your salvation continually say, "Let God be exalted!"

⁵ But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. Yahweh, don't delay.

¹ In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Never let me be disappointed.

² Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me. Turn your ear to me, and save me.

³ Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go. Give the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.

⁴ Rescue me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

⁵ For you are my hope, Lord Yahweh; my confidence from my youth.

⁶ I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother's womb. I will always praise you.

⁷ I am a marvel to many, but you are my strong refuge.

⁸ My mouth shall be filled with your praise, with your honor all the day.

⁹ Don't reject me in my old age. Don't forsake me when my strength fails.

¹⁰ For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together,

¹¹ saying, "God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him."

¹² God, don't be far from me. My God, hurry to help me.

¹³ Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed. Let them be covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me.

¹⁴ But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.

¹⁵ My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your salvation all day, though I don't know its full measure.

¹⁶ I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord Yahweh. I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours alone.