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Evening Prayer.
SAve me, O God: for the wat••rs are come in, even unto my soul.
2 I stick fast in the deep mire where no ground is: I am come into deep wa∣ters, so that the flouds run over me.
3 I am weary of crying, my throat is dry: my sight faileth me for waiting so long upon my God.
4 They that hate me without a cause, are moe then the hairs of my head: they that are mine enemies, and would destroy me guiltlesse, are mighty.
5 I payed them the things that I never took: God thou knowest my simplenesse, and my faults are not hid from thee.
6 Let not them that trust in thee, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed for my cause: let not them that seek thee, be confounded through me, O Lord God of Israel.
7 And why? for thy sake have I suffered reproof: shame hath covered my face.
8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren: even an aliant unto my mothers children.
9 For the zeal of thy house hath even eaten me: and the rebukes of them that rebuked thee, are fallen upon me.
10 I wept and chastned my self with fasting: and that was turned to my reproof.
11 I put on sackcloth also: and they jested upon me.
12 They that sit in the gate speak against me: and the drunkards make songs upon me.
13 But Lord, I make my prayer unto thee: in an ac∣ceptable time.