Rescue me from the mud! Don’t let me sink! Deliver me from those who hate me, from the deep water!
O sovereign Lord, intervene on my behalf for the sake of your reputation! Because your loyal love is good, deliver me!
They surround me and say hateful things; they attack me for no reason.
Reach down from above! Grab me and rescue me from the surging water, from the power of foreigners,
Do not let those who are my enemies for no reason gloat over me! Do not let those who hate me without cause carry out their wicked schemes!
I thirst for God, for the living God. I say, “When will I be able to go and appear in God’s presence?”
One deep stream calls out to another at the sound of your waterfalls; all your billows and waves overwhelm me.
Don’t let the current overpower me! Don’t let the deep swallow me up! Don’t let the pit devour me!
Certainly O Lord, you are kind and forgiving, and show great faithfulness to all who cry out to you.
I have called on your name, O Lord, from the deepest pit.
Those who worship worthless idols forfeit the mercy that could be theirs.
Around three o’clock Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to be king over us!’
But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to be their king, bring them here and slaughter them in front of me!’”