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 deep 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 hate 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 foolishness;
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 zeal of thine house hath eaten me up;
and the reproaches of them that reproached thee
are fallen upon me.
¹⁰ When I wept,
and chastened my soul with fasting,
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 the song of the drunkards [drinkers of liquor].

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.
¹⁵ Let not the waterflood [stream of waters] overflow me,
neither let the deep swallow me up,
and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
¹⁶ Hear me, O LORD;
for thy lovingkindness is good:
turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
¹⁷ And hide not thy face from thy servant;
for I am in trouble:
hear me speedily.
¹⁸ Draw nigh unto my soul,
and redeem it:
deliver me because of mine enemies.
¹⁹ Thou hast known my reproach,
and my shame,
and my dishonour:
mine adversaries are all before thee.
²⁰ Reproach hath broken my heart;
and I am full of heaviness:
and I looked for some to take pity,
but there was none;
and for comforters,
but I found none.
²¹ They gave me also gall for my meat;
and in my thirst
they gave me vinegar to drink.

²² Let their table become a snare before them:
and that which should have been for their welfare,
let it become a trap.
²³ Let their eyes be darkened,
that they see not;
and make their loins continually to shake.
²⁴ Pour out thine indignation upon them,
and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
²⁵ Let their habitation be desolate;
and let none dwell in their tents.
²⁶ For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten;
and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
²⁷ Add iniquity unto their iniquity:
and let them not come into thy righteousness.
²⁸ Let them be blotted out of the book of the living,
and not be written with the righteous.

²⁹ But I am poor and sorrowful:
let thy salvation, O God,
set me up on high.
³⁰ I will praise the name of God
with a song, and will magnify him
with thanksgiving.
³¹ This also shall please the LORD
better than an ox or bullock
that hath horns and hoofs.

³² The humble shall see this,
and be glad:
and your heart shall live
that seek God.
³³ For the LORD heareth [listens unto] the poor,
and despiseth not his prisoners.
³⁴ Let the heaven and earth praise him,
the seas,
and every thing that moveth therein.
³⁵ For God will save Zion,
and will build the cities of Judah:
that they may dwell there,
and have it in possession.
³⁶ The seed also of his servants
shall inherit it:
and they that love his name
shall dwell therein

* NOTE: On Opening and Closing Comments in the Psalms.
[Some commentators take the Psalm in Habakkuk 3 to be a standard model for the Psalms.
Habakkuk's Psalm begins with the name of the composer (Habakkuk) and a musical notation ("upon Shigionoth").
It closes with a dedication or a "send to" notice ("To the chief singer on my stringed instruments").
I have arranged similar material, where it is found in the Psalter, in accord with the model in Habakkuk.]