Psalms 69

1 For the chief musician; set to Shoshannim. A psalm of David. Save me, God; for the waters have put my life in danger.

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

2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no place to stand; I have come into deep waters, where the floods flow over me.

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.

3 I am weary with my crying; my throat is dry; my eyes fail while I wait for my God.

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

4 Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs on my head; those who would cut me off, being my enemies for wrong reasons, are mighty; what I did not steal, I have to give back.

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.

5 God, you know my foolishness, and my sins are not hidden from you.

O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my transgressions are not hidden from thee.

6 Let not those who hope in you be put to shame because of me, Lord Yahweh of hosts; let not those who seek you be brought to dishonor because of me, God of Israel.

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

7 For your sake I have borne rebuke; shame has covered my face.

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

8 I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother's children.

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

9 For the zeal of your house has eaten me up, and the rebukes of those who rebuke you have fallen on me.

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

10 When I wept and did not eat food, they insulted me.

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

11 When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became the object of a proverb to them.

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

12 Those who sit in the city gate talk about me; I am a song of drunkards.

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

13 But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, at a time that you will accept; answer me in the trustworthiness of your salvation.

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

14 Pull me out of the mire, and do not let me sink; let me be taken away from those who hate me and rescued out of the deep waters.

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.

15 Do not let the floods of water overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Do not let the pit shut its mouth on me.

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

16 Answer me, Yahweh, for your covenant faithfulness is good; because your mercies for me are many, turn to me.

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

17 Do not hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress; answer me quickly.

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

18 Come to me and redeem me. Because of my enemies, ransom me.

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

19 You know my rebuke, my shame, and my dishonor; my adversaries are all before you.

For thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my confusion; all that afflict me are before thee.

20 Rebuke has broken my heart; I am full of heaviness; I looked for someone to take pity, but there was none; I looked for comforters, but I found none.

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.

21 They gave me poison for my food; in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

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

22 Let their table before them become a snare; when they think they are in safety, let it become a trap.

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

23 Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see; and always make their loins shake.

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

24 Pour out your indignation on them, and let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.

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

25 Let their place be a desolation; let no one live in their tents.

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

26 For they persecuted the one you struck down. They repeated the account of the pain of those you have wounded.

Because they persecuted him whom thou hast smitten; and they have added to the grief of my wounds.

27 Accuse them of having committed iniquity after iniquity; do not let them come into your righteous victory.

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

28 Let them be blotted out of the Book of Life and not be written down along with the righteous.

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

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

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

30 I will praise the name of God with a song and will exalt him with thanksgiving.

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

31 That will please Yahweh better than an ox or a bull that has horns and hooves.

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

32 The meek have seen it and are glad; you who seek after God, let your hearts live.

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

33 For Yahweh hears the needy and does not despise his prisoners.

For the Lord hears the poor, and does not set at nought his fettered ones.

34 Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves in them.

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

35 For God will save Zion and will rebuild the cities of Judah; the people will live there and have it as a possession.

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

36 His servants' descendants will inherit it; and those who love his name will live there.

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