Psalms 69

1 For the end, [a Psalm] of David, for alternate [strains]. Save me, O God; for the waters have come in to my soul.

For the Leader; upon Shoshannim. A Psalm of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in even unto the soul.

2 I am stuck fast in deep mire, and there is no standing: I am come in to the depths of the sea, and a storm has overwhelmed me.

I am sunk in deep mire, where there is no standing; I am come into deep waters, and the flood overwhelmeth me.

3 I am weary [of] crying, my throat has become hoarse; mine eyes have failed by my waiting on my God.

I am weary of my crying; my throat is dried; mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: my enemies that persecute me unrighteously are strengthened: then I restored that which I took not away.

They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; they that would cut me off, being mine enemies wrongfully, are many; should I restore that which I took not away?

5 O God, you know my foolishness; and my transgressions are not hidden from you.

O God, Thou knowest my folly; and my trespasses are not hid from Thee.

6 Let not them that wait on you, O Lord of hosts, be ashamed on my account: let not them that seek you, be ashamed on my account, O God of Israel.

Let not them that wait for Thee be ashamed through me, O Lord GOD of hosts; let not those that seek Thee be brought to confusion through me, O God of Israel.

7 For I have suffered reproach for your sake; shame has covered my face.

Because for Thy sake I have borne reproach; confusion hath covered my face.

8 I became strange to my brethren, and a stranger to my mother's children.

I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.

9 For the zeal of your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached you are fallen upon me.

Because zeal for Thy house hath eaten me up, and the reproaches of them that reproach Thee are fallen upon me.

10 And I bowed down my soul with fasting, and that was made my reproach.

And I wept with my soul fasting, and that became unto me a reproach.

11 And I put on sackcloth for my covering; and I became a proverb to them.

I made sackcloth also my garment, and I became a byword unto them.

12 They that sit in the gate talked against me, and they that drank wine sang against me.

They that sit in the gate talk of me; and I am the song of the drunkards.

13 But I [will cry] to you, O Lord, in my prayer; O God, it is a propitious time: in the multitude of your mercy hear me, in the truth of your salvation.

But as for me, let my prayer be unto Thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time; O God, in the abundance of Thy mercy, answer me with the truth of Thy salvation.

14 Save me from the mire, that I stick not [in it]: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and from the deep waters.

Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink; let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

15 Let not the waterflood drown me, nor let the deep swallow me up; neither let the well shut its mouth upon me.

Let not the waterflood overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up; and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

16 Hear me, O Lord; for your mercy is good: according to the multitude of your compassions look upon me.

Answer me, O LORD, for Thy mercy is good; according to the multitude of Thy compassions turn Thou unto me.

17 And turn not away your face from your servant; for I am afflicted: hear me speedily.

And hide not Thy face from Thy servant; for I am in distress; answer me speedily.

18 Draw near to my soul and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.

Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it; ransom me because of mine enemies.

19 For you know my reproach, and my shame, and my confusion; all that afflict me are before you.

Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my confusion; mine adversaries are all before Thee.

20 My soul has waited for reproach and misery; and I waited for one to grieve with me, but there was none; and for one to comfort me, but I found none.

Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am sore sick; and I looked for some to show compassion, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

21 They gave [me] also gall for my food, and made me drink vinegar for my thirst.

Yea, they put poison into my food; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

22 Let their table before them be for a snare, and for a recompense, and for a stumbling block.

Let their table before them become a snare; and when they are in peace, let it become a trap.

23 Let their eyes be darkened that they should not see; and bow down their back continually.

Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to totter.

24 Pour out your wrath upon them, and let the fury of your anger take hold on them.

Pour out Thine indignation upon them, and let the fierceness of Thine anger overtake them.

25 Let their habitation be made desolate; and let there be no inhabitant in their tents:

Let their encampment be desolate; let none dwell in their tents.

26 Because they persecuted him whom you have struck; and they have added to the grief of my wounds.

For they persecute him whom Thou hast smitten; and they tell of the pain of those whom Thou hast wounded.

27 Add iniquity to their iniquity; and let them not come into your righteousness.

Add iniquity unto their iniquity; and let them not come into Thy righteousness.

28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and let them not be written with the righteous.

Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.

29 I am poor and sorrowful; but the salvation of your countenance has helped me.

But I am afflicted and in pain; let Thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.

30 I will praise the name of my God with a song, I will magnify him with praise;

I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify Him with thanksgiving.

31 and [this] shall please God more than a young calf having horns and hoofs.

And it shall please the LORD better than a bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

32 Let the poor see and rejoice; seek the Lord diligently, and you shall live.

The humble shall see it, and be glad; ye that seek after God, let your heart revive.

33 For the Lord hears the poor, and does not set at nothing his fettered ones.

For the LORD hearkeneth unto the needy, and despiseth not His prisoners.

34 Let the heavens and the earth raise him, the sea, and all things moving in them.

Let heaven and earth praise Him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.

35 For God will save Sion, and the cities of Judea shall be built; and [men] shall dwell there, and inherit it.

For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah; and they shall abide there, and have it in possession.

36 And the seed of his servants shall possess it, and they that love his name shall dwell therein.

The seed also of His servants shall inherit it; and they that love His name shall dwell therein.