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.
“To the chief musician upon Shoshannim, by David.” Save me, O God; for the waters are come even to threaten my life.
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 am sunk in the mire of the deep, where there is no standing; I am come into the depths of the waters, and the flood overfloweth 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 calling; my throat is hoarse; my eyes fail, while I hope 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.
More than the hairs of my head are those that hate me without a cause; numerous are those that would destroy me, that are my enemies wrongfully: what I have not robbed shall I now restore.
5 O God, you know my foolishness, and my offenses have not been hidden from you.
O God, thou art well aware of my folly, and my guilty deeds are from thee not hidden.
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 those that wait on thee, O Lord Eternal of hosts, be made ashamed through me: let not those that seek thee be confounded through me, O God of Israel.
7 For because of you, I have endured reproach; confusion has covered my face.
Because for thy sake have I borne reproach, hath confusion covered my face.
8 I have become a stranger to my brothers and a sojourner to the sons of my mother.
A stranger am I become unto my brothers, and an alien 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.
Because the zeal for thy house hath devoured me; and the reproaches of those that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
10 And I covered my soul with fasting, and it has become a reproach to me.
When I wept at the fasting of my soul, it became a reproach to me.
11 And I put on a haircloth as my garment, and I became a parable to them.
And when I made sackcloth my garment, 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.
Those that sit in the gate talk against me; and [about me make] songs the drinkers of strong drink.
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, I direct my prayer unto thee, O Lord, in a time of favor; O God, in the multitude of thy kindness: answer me in the truth of thy 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, that I may not sink: let me be delivered from those that hate me, and out of the depths of the 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, and let not the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit close its mouth upon me.
16 Hear me, O Lord, for your mercy is kind. Look upon me, according to the fullness of your compassion.
Answer me, O Lord; for thy kindness is good: according to the multitude of thy mercies turn thou unto me.
17 And do not turn your face away from your servant, for I am in trouble: heed me quickly.
And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in distress: make haste and answer me.
18 Attend to my soul, and free it. Rescue me, because of my enemies.
Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: because of my enemies do thou ransom me.
19 You know my reproach, and my confusion, and my reverence.
Thou well knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my confusion: before thee are all my assailants.
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 hath broken my heart; and I am sick; and I waited for 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.
And they put into my food gall; and in my thirst they give me vinegar to drink.
22 Let their table be a snare before them, and a retribution, and a scandal.
May [then] their table become a snare before them: and to those that are at peace, a trap.
23 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they may not see, and may their back always be crooked.
May their eyes become dark, that they cannot see; and make their loins continually to waver.
24 Pour out your indignation upon them, and may the fury of your anger take hold of them.
Pour out over them thy indignation, and let the heat of thy anger overtake them.
25 May their dwelling place be deserted, and may there be no one who dwells in their tabernacles.
May their palace become desolate: in their tents let no one dwell.
26 For they persecuted whomever you struck. And they have added to the grief of my wounds.
For whom thou hast smitten they persecute; and of the pain of those whom thou but wounded do they converse.
27 Assign an iniquity upon their iniquity, and may they not enter into your justice.
Lay guilt upon their guilt; and let them not come into thy 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 with the righteous let them not be written down.
29 I am poor and sorrowful, but your salvation, O God, has taken me up.
But I am poor and suffering: let thy 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 song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
31 And it will please God more than a new calf producing horns and hoofs.
And this will please the Lord better than an ox or bullock having horns and cloven hoofs.
32 Let the poor see and rejoice. Seek God, and your soul will live.
The meek will see this, and be rejoiced: ye that seek God, and your heart shall revive.
33 For the Lord has heard the poor, and he has not despised his prisoners.
For the Lord listeneth unto the needy, and his prisoners he despiseth not.
34 Let the heavens and the earth praise him: the sea, and everything that crawls in it.
Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth 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 abide 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.
And the seed of his servants shall inherit it; and they that love his name shall dwell therein.
