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- Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck.
- I sink in the miry depths, where there is no foothold. I have come into the deep waters; the floods engulf me.
- I am worn out calling for help; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
- Those who hate me without reason outnumber the hairs of my head; many are my enemies without cause, those who seek to destroy me. I am forced to restore what I did not steal.
- You know my folly, O God; my guilt is not hidden from you.
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- May those who hope in you not be disgraced because of me, O Lord, the LORD Almighty; may those who seek you not be put to shame because of me, O God of Israel.
- For I endure scorn for your sake, and shame covers my face.
- I am a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my own mother's sons;
- for zeal for your house consumes me, and the insults of those who insult you fall on me.
- When I weep and fast, I must endure scorn;
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- when I put on sackcloth, people make sport of me.
- Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of the drunkards.
- But I pray to you, O LORD, in the time of your favor; in your great love, O God, answer me with your sure salvation.
- Rescue me from the mire, do not let me sink; deliver me from those who hate me, from the deep waters.
- Do not let the floodwaters engulf me or the depths swallow me up or the pit close its mouth over me.
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