1To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. Of David. Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck.[1] (أي 22:11; مز 32:6; مز 45:1; مز 69:14; مز 130:1)2I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me. (مز 40:2; مز 69:14; مز 124:4)3I am weary with my crying out; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God. (تث 28:32; مز 6:6; مز 22:15; مز 31:24; مز 119:82; مز 119:123; إش 38:14)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? (مز 35:7; مز 35:19; مز 38:19; مز 40:12; مز 59:3; مز 109:3; مز 119:161; يو 15:25)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. (مز 25:2)7For it is for your sake that I have borne reproach, that dishonor has covered my face. (مز 44:22; إر 15:15)8I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s sons. (أي 19:13; مز 31:11; مز 38:11; يو 1:11)9For zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me. (مز 89:41; مز 89:50; مز 119:139; مز 132:1; يو 2:17; رو 15:3)10When I wept and humbled[2] my soul with fasting, it became my reproach.11When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them. (أي 17:6; مز 35:13)12I am the talk of those who sit in the gate, and the drunkards make songs about me. (تك 19:1; أس 2:19; أي 30:9)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. (مز 32:6; مز 109:4; إش 49:8; 2كو 6:2)14Deliver me from sinking in the mire; let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters. (مز 69:1; مز 69:2; مز 144:7)15Let not the flood sweep over me, or the deep swallow me up, or the pit close its mouth over me. (عد 16:33; مز 55:23)16Answer me, O Lord, for your steadfast love is good; according to your abundant mercy, turn to me. (مز 25:16; مز 63:3; مز 106:45; مز 109:21)17Hide not your face from your servant, for I am in distress; make haste to answer me. (مز 18:6; مز 27:9; مز 102:2; مز 143:7)18Draw near to my soul, redeem me; ransom me because of my enemies!19You know my reproach, and my shame and my dishonor; my foes are all known to you. (مز 22:6; مز 69:10; عب 12:2)20Reproaches have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none. (أي 16:2; مز 69:19; مز 142:4; إش 63:5; إر 15:5; مت 26:37)21They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me sour wine to drink. (تث 29:18; مت 27:34; مت 27:48; مر 15:23; لو 23:36; يو 19:29)22Let their own table before them become a snare; and when they are at peace, let it become a trap.[3] (مز 23:5; مز 35:4; مز 109:6; رو 11:9; 1تس 5:3)23Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see, and make their loins tremble continually. (إش 6:10; دا 5:6; نا 2:10; مت 13:14)24Pour out your indignation upon them, and let your burning anger overtake them.25May their camp be a desolation; let no one dwell in their tents. (مت 23:38; لو 13:35; أع 1:20)26For they persecute him whom you have struck down, and they recount the pain of those you have wounded. (أي 19:21; إش 53:4; زك 1:15)27Add to them punishment upon punishment; may they have no acquittal from you.[4] (نح 4:5)28Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; let them not be enrolled among the righteous. (خر 32:32; حز 13:9; لو 10:20; في 4:3; عب 12:23; رؤ 3:5)29But I am afflicted and in pain; let your salvation, O God, set me on high! (مز 20:1)30I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him with thanksgiving. (مز 28:7; مز 34:3; مز 50:14; مز 50:23)31This will please the Lord more than an ox or a bull with horns and hoofs. (لا 11:3; مز 50:13)32When the humble see it they will be glad; you who seek God, let your hearts revive. (مز 22:26; مز 34:2)33For the Lord hears the needy and does not despise his own people who are prisoners. (مز 68:6)34Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves in them. (مز 96:11; مز 98:7; مز 148:1; إش 44:23; إش 49:13)35For God will save Zion and build up the cities of Judah, and people shall dwell there and possess it; (مز 51:18; إش 44:26)36the offspring of his servants shall inherit it, and those who love his name shall dwell in it. (مز 37:29; مز 102:28; إش 65:9)