Psalms 69:1-13

1Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck.

2I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me.

3I am weary with my crying out; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.

4More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies. What I did not steal must I now restore?

5O God, you know my folly; the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you.

6Let not those who hope in you be put to shame through me, O Lord God of hosts; let not those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel.

7For it is for your sake that I have borne reproach, that dishonor has covered my face.

8I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother's sons.

9For zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

10When I wept and humbled my soul with fasting, it became my reproach.

11When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.

12I am the talk of those who sit in the gate, and the drunkards make songs about me.

13But as for me, my prayer is to you, O Lord. At an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness.