Psalms 69
1 “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!
For the leader. On shoshannim. Of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are threatening my life.
2 I sink in deep mire, where is no standing; I have come into deep waters, and the waves flow over me.
I am sunk in depths of mire, where ground there is none. I am come into deep deep waters, the flood overwhelms me.
3 I am weary with crying; my throat is parched; Mine eyes are wasted, while I wait for my God.
I am weary of crying, my throat is parched, my eyes are wasted with waiting for God.
4 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.
More than the hairs of my head are those who wantonly hate me. More than my bones in number are those who are falsely my foes. That which I never robbed, how am I then to restore?
5 O God! thou knowest my offences, And my sins are not hidden from thee!
O God, you know my folly, my guilt is not hidden from you.
6 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!
Through me let not any be shamed, who wait for you, Lord God of hosts. Through me let not those be confounded who seek you, O God of Israel.
7 For on account of thee do I suffer reproach, And shame covereth my face!
It’s in your cause that I have borne taunts, and my face has been covered with shame;
8 I am become a stranger to my brothers; Yea, an alien to my mother's sons.
I became to my kindred a foreigner, to my mother’s sons a stranger.
9 For zeal for thy house consumeth me, And the reproaches of them that reproach thee fall upon me.
It was zeal for your house that consumed me, and the insults they hurled at you fell upon me.
10 When I weep and fast, That is made my reproach;
When I chastened myself with fasting, they took occasion to taunt me.
11 When I clothe myself in sackcloth, Then I become their by-word.
When I put on a garment of sackcloth, they made me the theme of a taunt-song.
12 They who sit in the gate speak against me, And I am become the song of drunkards.
Those who sit in the gate make sport of me in the music of drunken songs.
13 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!
But I pray to you, Lord, for a time of favor. In your great love answer me; with your loyal help, save me
14 Save me from the mire, and let me not sink; May I be delivered from my enemies, —from the deep waters!
from sinking down in the mire. Lift me out of the deep deep waters,
15 Let not the water-flood overflow me; Let not the deep swallow me up, And let not the pit close her mouth upon me!
that the rushing flood may not drown me, that the deep may not swallow me up, nor the pit close her mouth upon me.
16 Hear me, O LORD! since great is thy loving-kindness; According to the abundance of thy tender mercies look upon me!
Answer me, Lord, in your gracious kindness, turn to me in your great compassion.
17 Hide not thy face from thy servant; I am greatly distressed, O make haste to mine aid!
Hide not your face from your servant, for I am in trouble; O answer me speedily.
18 Draw near to me, and redeem my life; Deliver me because of my enemies!
Draw near to me, redeem me; because of my enemies, ransom me.
19 Thou knowest my reproach, and dishonor, and shame; All my adversaries are in thy view!
You know how I am insulted; in your sight are all my foes.
20 Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness; I look for pity, but there is none; For comforters, but find none.
Insult has broken my heart, past cure are my shame and confusion. For pity I looked – there was none! And for comforters, but I found none.
21 For my food they give me gall, And in my thirst they give me vinegar to drink.
Poison they gave me for food, and to slake my thirst they gave vinegar.
22 May their table be to them a snare; May it be a trap to them, while they are at ease!
May their table, outspread, be a trap to them, and their peace-offerings be a snare.
23 May their eyes be darkened, that they may not see; And cause their loins continually to shake!
May their eyes be darkened and blind, make them shake without ceasing.
24 Pour out upon them thine indignation, And may the heat of thine anger overtake them!
Pour your indignation upon them, let your burning wrath overtake them.
25 Let their habitation be desolate, And let none dwell in their tents!
May their camp be a desolation, in their tents be there none to live.
26 For they persecute those whom thou hast smitten, And talk of the pain of those whom thou hast wounded.
For those whom you struck, they persecute, and those whom you wounded, they pain yet more.
27 Add iniquity to their iniquity, And let them never come into thy favor!
Charge them with sin upon sin, may they not be acquitted by you.
28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; Let not their names be written with the righteous!
From the book of life be they blotted, may their names not be written with the righteous.
29 But I am poor, and sorrowful: May thine aid, O God! set me on high!
Lift me, O God, by your help above my pain and misery.
30 Then I will praise the name of God in a song; I will give glory to him with thanksgiving.
Then will I praise God in song and magnify him with thanksgiving,
31 More pleasing shall this be to the LORD Than a full-horned and full-hoofed bullock.
which shall please the Lord better than ox, or than bullock with horns and hoofs.
32 The afflicted shall see, and rejoice; The hearts of them that fear God shall be revived.
The oppressed shall rejoice at the sight. You who seek after God, let your heart revive.
33 For the LORD heareth the poor, And despiseth not his people in their bonds.
For the Lord listens to the poor, he does not despise his prisoners.
34 Let the heaven and the earth praise him; The sea, and all that move therein!
Let the heavens and the earth sing his praises, the seas, and all creatures that move in them.
35 For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah, That they may dwell therein, and possess it.
For God will bring help to Zion, and build up the cities of Judah, his people shall live there in possession.
36 Yea, the posterity of his servants shall possess it, And they that love him shall dwell therein.
His servants’ children shall have it for heritage, and those who love him shall live therein.
