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¹ For the waters have come up to my neck. ² Where the floods overflow me. ³ My eyes fail while I wait for my God. ⁴ I still must restore it. ⁵ And my sins are not hidden from You. ⁶ Let not those who seek You be confounded because of me, O God of Israel. ⁷ Shame has covered my face. ⁸ And an alien to my mother’s children; ⁹ And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me. ¹⁰ That became my reproach. ¹¹ I became a byword to them. ¹² And I am the song of the drunkards. ¹³ Hear me in the truth of Your salvation. ¹⁴ And out of the deep waters. ¹⁵ And let not the pit shut its mouth on me. ¹⁶ Turn to me according to the multitude of Your tender mercies. ¹⁷ Hear me speedily. ¹⁸ Deliver me because of my enemies. ¹⁹ My adversaries are all before You. ²⁰ And for comforters, but I found none. ²¹ And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. ²² And their well-being a trap. ²³ And make their loins shake continually. ²⁴ And let Your wrathful anger take hold of them. ²⁵ Let no one live in their tents. ²⁶ And talk of the grief of those You have wounded. ²⁷ And let them not come into Your righteousness. ²⁸ And not be written with the righteous. ²⁹ Let Your salvation, O God, set me up on high. ³⁰ And will magnify Him with thanksgiving. ³¹ Which has horns and hooves. ³² And you who seek God, your hearts shall live. ³³ And does not despise His prisoners. ³⁴ The seas and everything that moves in them. ³⁵ That they may dwell there and possess it. ³⁶ And those who love His name shall dwell in it.