- [To the chiefe musician vpon Shoshannim,
A Psalme of Dauid.]
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- Saue mee, O God, for the waters are come in vnto my soule.
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- I sinke in deepe mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deepe waters, where the flouds ouerflow me.
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- I am weary of my crying, my throate is dried: mine eyes faile while I waite for my God.
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- They that hate mee without a cause, are moe then the haires of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mightie: then I restored that which I tooke not away.
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- O God, thou knowest my foolishnesse;
and my sinnes are not hidde from thee.
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- Let not them that waite on thee, O Lord God of hostes, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seeke thee, be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
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- Because for thy sake I haue borne reproch: shame hath couered my face.
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- I am become a stranger vnto my brethren, and an aliant vnto my mothers children.
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- For the zeale of thine house hath eaten mee vp;
and the reproches of them that reproched thee, are fallen vpon me.
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- When I wept, and chastened my soule with fasting, that was to my reproch.
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- I made sackecloth also my garment: & I became a prouerbe to them.
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- They that sit in the gate, speake against mee;
and I was the song of the drunkards.
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- But as for mee, my prayer is vnto thee, O Lord, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercie heare me, in the trueth of thy saluation.
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- Deliuer me out of the mire, and let me not sinke: let me bee deliuered from them that hate me, and out of the deepe waters.
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- Let not the water flood ouerflow me, neither let the deepe swallow mee vp, and let not the pit shut her mouth vpon me.
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- Heare me, O Lord, for thy louing kindnesse is good: turne vnto mee according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
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- And hide not thy face from thy seruant, for I am in trouble: heare me speedily.
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- Draw nigh vnto my soule, and redeeme it: deliuer me because of mine enemies.
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- Thou hast knowen my reproch and my shame and my dishonor: mine aduersaries are all before thee.
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- Reproch hath broken my heart, and I am full of heauines: and I looked for some to take pitie, but there was none;
and for comforters, but I found none.
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- They gaue mee also gall for my meat, and in my thirst they gaue mee vineger to drinke.
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- Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should haue bene for their welfare, let it become a trap.
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- Let their eyes be darkened that they see not;
and make their loines continually to shake.
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- Powre out thine indignation vpon them, and let thy wrathfull anger take hold of them.
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- Let their habitation be desolate, and let none dwell in their tents.
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- For they persecute him who thou hast smitten, and they talke to the griefe of those whom thou hast wounded.
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- Adde iniquitie vnto their iniquitie: and let them not come into thy righteousnesse.
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- Let them bee blotted out of the booke of the liuing, and not be written with the righteous.
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- But I am poore, and sorowfull: let thy saluation (O God) set me vp on high.
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- I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnifie him with thankesgiuing.
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- This also shall please the Lord better then an oxe or bullocke that hath hornes and hoofes.
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- The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall liue that seeke good.
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- For the Lord heareth the poore, and despiseth not his prisoners.
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- Let the heauen and earth praise him, the seas, and euery thing that moueth therein.
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- For God will saue Sion, and will build the cities of Iudah, that they may dwell there, and haue it in possession.
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- The seede also of his seruants shall inherit it: and they that loue his name shall dwell therein.
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