Psalms 69

1 Unto the end. For those who will be changed: of David. Save me, O God, for the waters have entered, even to my soul.

Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.

2 I have become stuck in a deep quagmire, and there is no firm footing. I have arrived at the height of the sea, and a tempest has overwhelmed me.

I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

3 I have endured hardships, while crying out. My jaws have become hoarse; my eyes have failed. Meanwhile, I hope in my God.

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

4 Those who hate me without cause have been multiplied beyond the hairs of my head. My enemies, who persecuted me unjustly, have been strengthened. Then I was required to pay for what I did not take.

They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.

5 O God, you know my foolishness, and my offenses have not been hidden from you.

O God, you know my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from you.

6 Let those who wait for you, O Lord, the Lord of hosts, not be shamed in me. Let those who seek you, O God of Israel, not be confounded over me.

Let not them that wait on you, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek you be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.

7 For because of you, I have endured reproach; confusion has covered my face.

Because for your sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face.

8 I have become a stranger to my brothers and a sojourner to the sons of my mother.

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

9 For zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproached you have fallen upon me.

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

10 And I covered my soul with fasting, and it has become a reproach to me.

When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.

11 And I put on a haircloth as my garment, and I became a parable to them.

I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.

12 Those who sat at the gate spoke against me, and those who drank wine made me their song.

They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.

13 But as for me, truly, my prayer is to you, O Lord. This time has pleased you well, O God. In the multitude of your mercy, in the truth of your salvation, hear me.

But as for me, my prayer is unto you, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of your mercy hear me, in the truth of your salvation.

14 Rescue me from the quagmire, so that I may not become trapped. Free me from those who hate me and from 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 Do not allow the tempest of water to submerge me, nor the deep to absorb me. And do not allow the well to close in on me.

Let not the flood of waters overflow 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 kind. Look upon me, according to the fullness of your compassion.

Hear me, O LORD; for your loving kindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of your tender mercies.

17 And do not turn your face away from your servant, for I am in trouble: heed me quickly.

And hide not your face from your servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.

18 Attend to my soul, and free it. Rescue me, because of my enemies.

Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.

19 You know my reproach, and my confusion, and my reverence.

You have known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before you.

20 All those who trouble me are in your sight; my heart has anticipated reproach and misery. And I sought for one who might grieve together with me, but there was no one, and for one who might console me, and I found no one.

Reproach has broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

21 And they gave me gall for my food. And in my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.

They gave me also gall for my food; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

22 Let their table be a snare before them, and a retribution, and a scandal.

Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

23 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they may not see, and may their back always be crooked.

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

24 Pour out your indignation upon them, and may the fury of your anger take hold of them.

Pour out your indignation upon them, and let your wrathful anger take hold of them.

25 May their dwelling place be deserted, and may there be no one who dwells in their tabernacles.

Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.

26 For they persecuted whomever you struck. And they have added to the grief of my wounds.

For they persecute him whom you have smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom you have wounded.

27 Assign an iniquity upon their iniquity, and may they not enter into your justice.

Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into your righteousness.

28 Delete them from the Book of the Living, and let them not be written down with the just.

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 your salvation, O God, has taken me up.

But I am poor and sorrowful: let your salvation, O God, set me up on high.

30 I will praise the name of God with a canticle, and I will magnify him with praise.

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

31 And it will please God more than a new calf producing horns and hoofs.

This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that has horns and hoofs.

32 Let the poor see and rejoice. Seek God, and your soul will live.

The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.

33 For the Lord has heard the poor, and he has not despised his prisoners.

For the LORD hears the poor, and despises not his prisoners.

34 Let the heavens and the earth praise him: the sea, and everything that crawls in it.

Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moves therein.

35 For God will save Zion, and the cities of Judah will be built up. And they will dwell there, and they will acquire it by inheritance.

For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.

36 And the offspring of his servants will possess it; and those who love his name will dwell in it.

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