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- Save me, O God, For the waters have threatened my life.
- I have sunk in deep mire, and there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and a flood overflows me.
- I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched; My eyes fail while I wait for my God.
- Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; Those who would destroy me are powerful, being wrongfully my enemies; What I did not steal, I then have to restore.
- O God, it is You who knows my folly, And my wrongs are not hidden from You.
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- May those who wait for You not be ashamed through me, O Lord GOD of hosts; May those who seek You not be dishonored through me, O God of Israel,
- Because for Your sake I have borne reproach; Dishonor has covered my face.
- I have become estranged from my brothers And an alien to my mother's sons.
- For zeal for Your house has consumed me, And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me.
- When I wept in my soul with fasting, It became my reproach.
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- When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
- Those who sit in the gate talk about me, And I am the song of the drunkards.
- But as for me, my prayer is to You, O LORD, at an acceptable time; O God, in the greatness of Your lovingkindness, Answer me with Your saving truth.
- Deliver me from the mire and do not let me sink; May I be delivered from my foes and from the deep waters.
- May the flood of water not overflow me Nor the deep swallow me up, Nor the pit shut its mouth on me.
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