1 Vir die musiekleier; op die wysie van: "Lelies." 'n Psalm van Dawid.

2 Verlos my, o God, want die waters het tot by die siel gekom.

3 Ek sink in grondelose modder waar geen staanplek is nie; ek het in waterdieptes gekom, en die stroom loop oor my.

4 Ek is moeg van my geroep, my keel brand, my oë versmag terwyl ek wag op my God.

5 Die wat my sonder oorsaak haat, is meer as die hare van my hoof; die wat klaar staan om my te vernietig, wat sonder grond my vyande is, is magtig; wat ek nie geroof het nie, moet ek dan teruggee.

6 o God, U weet van my dwaasheid, en my skuldige dade is vir U nie verborge nie.

7 Laat die wat u verwag, deur my nie beskaamd staan nie, o Here, HERE van die leërskare! Laat die wat U soek, deur my nie in die skande kom nie, o God van Israel!

8 Want om U ontwil dra ek smaad, bedek skande my aangesig.

9 Vreemd het ek vir my broers geword en 'n onbekende vir die seuns van my moeder.

10 Want die ywer vir u huis het my verteer, en die smaadhede van die wat U smaad, het op my geval.

11 Wat my aangaan, my siel het geween met vas; maar dit het smaadhede vir my geword.

12 Ek het ook 'n rougewaad my kleding gemaak en vir hulle 'n spreekwoord geword.

13 Die wat in die poort sit, praat van my -- ook die spotlied van die wat sterk drank drink.

14 Maar ek -- my gebed is tot U, o HERE: in die tyd van genade, o God, verhoor my deur die grootheid van u goedertierenheid, deur die trou van u heil!

15 Red my uit die modder en laat my nie sink nie; laat my gered word van my haters en uit waterdieptes.

16 Laat die waterstroom nie oor my loop en die diepte my nie verslind nie, en laat die put sy mond bo my nie toesluit nie!

17 Verhoor my, o HERE, want u goedertierenheid is goed; wend U tot my na die grootheid van u barmhartighede.

18 En verberg u aangesig nie vir u kneg nie; want ek is benoud. Verhoor my dan gou!

19 Kom nader na my siel, verlos dit; bevry my om my vyande ontwil.

20 U ken my smaad en my beskaming en my skande; al my teëstanders is voor U.

21 Die smaad breek my hart, en ek is verswak; ja, ek het gewag op medelyde, maar verniet; en op vertroosters, maar het hulle nie gevind nie.

22 En hulle het aan my gal gegee as my spys, en vir my dors het hulle my asyn laat drink.

23 Laat hul tafel voor hulle 'n vangnet wees en vir hulle wat sorgeloos is, 'n strik.

24 Laat hulle oë duister word, sodat hulle nie sien nie; en maak dat hulle heupe altyddeur wankel.

25 Stort oor hulle u grimmigheid uit, en laat u toorngloed hulle inhaal.

26 Laat hulle laer woes word, laat in hulle tente geen bewoner wees nie.

27 Want hulle vervolg hom wat deur U swaar getref is, en vertel van die smart van u gewondes.

28 Voeg skuld by hulle skuld, en laat hulle nie in u geregtigheid kom nie.

29 Laat hulle uitgedelg word uit die boek van die lewe en nie saam met die regverdiges opgeskrywe word nie.

30 Maar ek is ellendig en in pyn: laat u hulp, o God, my beskerm!

31 Ek wil die Naam van God prys met 'n lied en Hom groot maak met danksegging;

32 en dit sal die HERE welgevalliger wees as beeste, as stiere wat horings en gesplitste kloue het.

33 As die ootmoediges dit sien, sal hulle bly wees; julle wat na God soek, laat julle hart lewe!

34 Want die HERE luister na die behoeftiges en verag sy gevangenes nie.

35 Laat hemel en aarde Hom prys, die see en alles wat daarin roer.

36 Want God sal Sion verlos en die stede van Juda bou; en daar sal hulle woon en dit besit. [ (Psalms 69:37) En die nageslag van sy knegte sal dit beërwe, en die liefhebbers van sy Naam sal daarin woon. ]

1 Save me, O God;

For the waters are come in unto my soul.

2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing:

I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

3 I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried:

Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head:

They that would cut me off, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty:

That which I took not away I have to restore.

5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness;

And my sins are not hid from thee.

6 Let not them that wait for thee be put to shame through me, O Lord Jehovah of hosts:

Let not those that seek thee be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel.

7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach;

Shame hath covered my face.

8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren,

And an alien unto my mother’s children.

9 For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up;

And the reproaches of them that reproach thee are fallen upon me.

10 When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting,

That was to my reproach.

11 When I made sackcloth my clothing,

I became a byword unto them.

12 They that sit in the gate talk of me;

And I am the song of the drunkards.

13 But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Jehovah, in an acceptable time:

O God, in the abundance of thy lovingkindness,

Answer me in the truth of thy salvation.

14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink:

Let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

15 Let not the waterflood overwhelm me,

Neither let the deep swallow me up;

And let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.

16 Answer me, O Jehovah; for thy lovingkindness is good:

According to the multitude of thy tender mercies turn thou unto me.

17 And hide not thy face from thy servant;

For I am in distress; answer me speedily.

18 Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it:

Ransom me because of mine enemies.

19 Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor:

Mine adversaries are all before thee.

20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness:

And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none;

And for comforters, but I found none.

21 They gave me also gall for my food;

And in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

22 Let their table before them become a snare;

And when they are in peace, let it become a trap.

23 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see;

And make their loins continually to shake.

24 Pour out thine indignation upon them,

And let the fierceness of thine anger overtake them.

25 Let their habitation be desolate;

Let none dwell in their tents.

26 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten;

And they tell of the sorrow of those whom thou hast wounded.

27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity;

And let them not come into thy righteousness.

28 Let them be blotted out of the book of life,

And not be written with the righteous.

29 But I am poor and sorrowful:

Let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.

30 I will praise the name of God with a song,

And will magnify him with thanksgiving.

31 And it will please Jehovah better than an ox,

Or a bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

32 The meek have seen it, and are glad:

Ye that seek after God, let your heart live.

33 For Jehovah heareth the needy,

And despiseth not his prisoners.

34 Let heaven and earth praise him,

The seas, and everything that moveth therein.

35 For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah;

And they shall abide there, and have it in possession.

36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it;

And they that love his name shall dwell therein.