Save me
O God
because the floods
Come in upon my soul;
I sink in depths where none can stand;
Deep waters
o’er me roll.
My constant calling wearies me
My throat is parched and dried
My eyes grow dim while for my God
Still waiting I abide.
The foes who hate me unprovoked
Are strong and still increase
Though to disarm their enmity
My right I yield for peace.
O God
my folly and my sin
Thy holy eye can see;
Yet save from shame
Lord God of hosts
Thy saints that wait on Thee.
Forbid
O God
our covenant God
That those who seek Thy face
Should see Thy servant put to shame
And share in my disgrace.
It is for Thee I am reproached
For Thee I suffer shame
Until my brethren know me not
And hated is my name.
It is my zeal for Thy abode
That has consumed my life;
Reproached by those reproaching Thee
I suffer in the strife.
I wept
with fasting bowed my soul
Yet that was made my shame;
When I in sackcloth clothed myself
Their byword I became.
The men who sit within the gate
With slander do me wrong
And they who linger at their cups
Make me their jest and song.