Psalms 69:2-12

2 I am sinking in deep mud. There is nothing to stand on. I am in deep water. A flood is sweeping me away.
3 I am exhausted from crying for help. My throat is hoarse. My eyes are strained [from] looking for my God.
4 Those who hate me for no reason outnumber the hairs on my head. Those who want to destroy me are mighty. They have no reason to be my enemies. I am forced to pay back what I did not steal.
5 O God, you know my stupidity, and the things of which I am guilty are not hidden from you.
6 Do not let those who wait with hope for you be put to shame because of me, O Almighty LORD of Armies. Do not let those who come to you for help be humiliated because of me, O God of Israel.
7 Indeed, for your sake I have endured insults. Humiliation has covered my face.
8 I have become a stranger to my [own] brothers, a foreigner to my mother's sons.
9 Indeed, devotion for your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.
10 I cried and fasted, but I was insulted for it.
11 I dressed myself in sackcloth, but I became the object of ridicule.
12 Those who sit at the gate gossip about me, and drunkards make up songs about me.
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