To the conductor, upon lilies. Of David.1Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my soul.2I sank in the mire of the depth, and there was no foothold. I came into deep waters, and a stream overflowed me.3I grew weary in my calling; my throat was scorched; my eyes failed while waiting for my God.4Those who hate me without cause have become more numerous than the hairs of my head; my destroyers have become vast; my enemies are those of deception, though I did not plunder, yet I will restore.5O God, you knew my folly, and my guilt was not hidden from you.6Do not let those who wait for you be put to shame because of me, O Lord GOD of Hosts; do not let those who seek you, O God of Israel, be humiliated because of me.7For I have borne reproach on your account; shame has covered my face.8I have become a stranger to my brothers and an alien to my mother's sons.9For zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who taunt you have fallen upon me.10When I wept in fasting, my soul became a reproach to me.11I made sackcloth my clothing, and I became a byword to them.12Those who sit at the gate muse about me, and the songs of those who drink strong drink.13But as for me, my prayer is to you, O the LORD, at a time of acceptance; O God, in the abundance of your kindness answer me with the truth of your salvation.14Rescue me from the mud, and do not let me sink; let me be delivered from my haters and from the deep waters.15Do not let the flood of waters overflow me, nor let the depth swallow me up, nor let the well close its mouth over me.16Answer me, O the LORD, for your kindness is good; in the abundance of your compassions turn to me.17Do not hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress; answer me quickly.18Draw near to my soul and redeem it; ransom me because of my enemies.19You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor; all my adversaries are before you.20Reproach has broken my heart, and I am sick; I waited for sympathy, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.21They put poison in my food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.22Let their table become a snare before them, and their peace offerings a trap.23Let their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and make their loins continually shake.24Pour out your indignation upon them, and let the burning of your anger overtake them.25Let their encampment become desolate; let no one dwell in their tents.26For they pursued the one whom you struck, and they recount the pain of your wounded.27Add iniquity to their iniquity, and do not let them enter your righteousness.28Let them be blotted out of the book of the living and not be written with the righteous.29But I am afflicted and in pain; may your salvation, O God, set me on high.30I will praise the name of God with a song and magnify him with thanksgiving.31It will please the LORD more than an ox or a bull with horns and hoofs.32The poor have seen it and will rejoice; you who seek God, let your heart live.33For the LORD hears the needy and does not despise his prisoners.34Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves in them.35For God will save Zion and build the cities of Judah, and they shall dwell there and possess it.36The offspring of his servants shall inherit it, and those who love his name shall dwell in it.