^4 (A)More in number than the hairs of my head
    are ^(B)those who hate me ^(C)without cause;
mighty are those who would destroy me,
    ^(D)those who attack me with lies.
What I did not steal
    must I now restore?
⁵ O God, you know my folly;
    the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you.

⁶ Let not those who hope in you ^(E)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.
⁷ For it is ^(F)for your sake that I have borne reproach,
    that dishonor has covered my face.
⁸ I have become ^(G)a stranger to my brothers,
    an alien to my mother's sons.

⁹ For ^(H)zeal for your house has consumed me,
    and ^(I)the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
¹⁰ When I wept and humbled^[a] my soul with fasting,
    it became my reproach.
¹¹ When I made ^(J)sackcloth my clothing,
    I became ^(K)a byword to them.
¹² I am the talk of those who ^(L)sit in the gate,
    and the drunkards make ^(M)songs about me.

¹³ But as for me, my ^(N)prayer is to you, O Lord.
    At ^(O)an acceptable time, O God,
    in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness.
¹⁴ Deliver me
    from sinking in ^(P)the mire;
^(Q)let me be delivered from my enemies
    and from ^(R)the deep waters.
¹⁵ Let not the flood sweep over me,
    or the deep swallow me up,
    or ^(S)the pit close ^(T)its mouth over me.

¹⁶ Answer me, O Lord, for your ^(U)steadfast love is good;
    according to your abundant ^(V)mercy, ^(W)turn to me.
^17 (X)Hide not your face from your servant,
    ^(Y)for I am in distress; ^(Z)make haste to answer me.
¹⁸ Draw near to my soul, redeem me;
    ransom me because of my enemies!

¹⁹ You know my ^(AA)reproach,
    and my shame and my dishonor;
    my foes are all known to you.
^20 (AB)Reproaches have broken my heart,
    so that I am in ^(AC)despair.
I ^(AD)looked for ^(AE)pity, but there was none,
    and for ^(AF)comforters, but I found none.
²¹ They gave me ^(AG)poison for food,
    and for my thirst they gave me ^(AH)sour wine to drink.

^22 (AI)Let their own ^(AJ)table before them become a snare;
    ^(AK)and when they are at peace, let it become a trap.^[b]
23 (AL)Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see,
    ^(AM)and make their loins tremble continually.
²⁴ Pour out your indignation upon them,
    and let your burning anger overtake them.
^25 (AN)May their camp be a desolation;
    let no one dwell in their tents.
²⁶ For they ^(AO)persecute him whom ^(AP)you have struck down,
    and they recount the pain of ^(AQ)those you have wounded.
^27 (AR)Add to them punishment upon punishment;
    may they have no acquittal from you.^[c]
28 Let them be ^(AS)blotted out of the book of the living;
    let them not be ^(AT)enrolled among the righteous.

²⁹ But I am afflicted and in pain;
    let your salvation, O God, ^(AU)set me on high!