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 of the music. Upon the Shoshannim. A psalm of David.” Save me, O God! For the waters press in to my very life!
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 sink in deep mire, where is no standing; I have come into deep waters, and the waves flow over 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 with crying; my throat is parched; Mine eyes are wasted, 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.
More numerous than the hairs of my head are they who hate me without reason; Mighty are they who seek to destroy me, being my enemies without cause: I must restore what I took not away.
5 O God, you know my foolishness; and my transgressions are not hidden from you.
O God! thou knowest my offences, And my sins are not hidden 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 trust in thee through me be put to shame, O Lord Jehovah, God of hosts! Let not them that seek thee through me be confounded, O God of Israel!
7 For I have suffered reproach for your sake; shame has covered my face.
For on account of thee do I suffer reproach, And shame covereth my face!
8 I became strange to my brethren, and a stranger to my mother's children.
I am become a stranger to my brothers; Yea, an alien to my mother's sons.
9 For the zeal of your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached you are fallen upon me.
For zeal for thy house consumeth me, And the reproaches of them that reproach thee fall upon me.
10 And I bowed down my soul with fasting, and that was made my reproach.
When I weep and fast, That is made my reproach;
11 And I put on sackcloth for my covering; and I became a proverb to them.
When I clothe myself in sackcloth, Then I become their by-word.
12 They that sit in the gate talked against me, and they that drank wine sang against me.
They who sit in the gate speak against me, And I am become the song of 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.
Yet will I address my prayer to thee, O LORD! May it be in an acceptable time according to thy great goodness! Hear, O God! and afford me thy sure help!
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.
Save me from the mire, and let me not sink; May I be delivered from my enemies, —from 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 water-flood overflow me; Let not the deep swallow me up, And let not the pit close her mouth upon me!
16 Hear me, O Lord; for your mercy is good: according to the multitude of your compassions look upon me.
Hear me, O LORD! since great is thy loving-kindness; According to the abundance of thy tender mercies look upon me!
17 And turn not away your face from your servant; for I am afflicted: hear me speedily.
Hide not thy face from thy servant; I am greatly distressed, O make haste to mine aid!
18 Draw near to my soul and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.
Draw near to me, and redeem my life; Deliver me because of my 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 dishonor, and shame; All my adversaries are in thy view!
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 full of heaviness; I look for pity, but there is none; For comforters, but find none.
21 They gave [me] also gall for my food, and made me drink vinegar for my thirst.
For my food they give me gall, And in my thirst they give me vinegar to drink.
22 Let their table before them be for a snare, and for a recompense, and for a stumbling block.
May their table be to them a snare; May it be a trap to them, while they are at ease!
23 Let their eyes be darkened that they should not see; and bow down their back continually.
May their eyes be darkened, that they may not see; And cause their loins continually to shake!
24 Pour out your wrath upon them, and let the fury of your anger take hold on them.
Pour out upon them thine indignation, And may the heat of thine anger overtake them!
25 Let their habitation be made desolate; and let there be no inhabitant in their tents:
Let their habitation be desolate, And 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 those whom thou hast smitten, And talk 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 to their iniquity, And let them never come into thy favor!
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; Let not their names be written with the righteous!
29 I am poor and sorrowful; but the salvation of your countenance has helped me.
But I am poor, and sorrowful: May thine aid, O God! set me on high!
30 I will praise the name of my God with a song, I will magnify him with praise;
Then I will praise the name of God in a song; I will give glory to him with thanksgiving.
31 and [this] shall please God more than a young calf having horns and hoofs.
More pleasing shall this be to the LORD Than a full-horned and full-hoofed bullock.
32 Let the poor see and rejoice; seek the Lord diligently, and you shall live.
The afflicted shall see, and rejoice; The hearts of them that fear God shall be revived.
33 For the Lord hears the poor, and does not set at nothing his fettered ones.
For the LORD heareth the poor, And despiseth not his people in their bonds.
34 Let the heavens and the earth raise him, the sea, and all things moving in them.
Let the heaven and the earth praise him; The sea, and all that move 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 will build the cities of Judah, That they may dwell therein, and possess it.
36 And the seed of his servants shall possess it, and they that love his name shall dwell therein.
Yea, the posterity of his servants shall possess it, And they that love him shall dwell therein.
