תהילים 69
| למנצח על-שושנים לדוד ב הושיעני אלהים-- כי באו מים עד-נפש | 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.
| טבעתי ביון מצולה-- ואין מעמד באתי במעמקי-מים ושבלת שטפתני | 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.
| יגעתי בקראי נחר גרוני כלו עיני--מיחל לאלהי | 3 |
I have endured hardships, while crying out. My jaws have become hoarse; my eyes have failed. Meanwhile, I hope in my God.
| רבו משערות ראשי-- שנאי חנם עצמו מצמיתי איבי שקר-- אשר לא-גזלתי אז אשיב | 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.
| אלהים--אתה ידעת לאולתי ואשמותי ממך לא-נכחדו | 5 |
O God, you know my foolishness, and my offenses have not been hidden from you.
| אל-יבשו בי קויך-- אדני יהוה צבאות אל-יכלמו בי מבקשיך-- אלהי ישראל | 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.
| כי-עליך נשאתי חרפה כסתה כלמה פני | 7 |
For because of you, I have endured reproach; confusion has covered my face.
| מוזר הייתי לאחי ונכרי לבני אמי | 8 |
I have become a stranger to my brothers and a sojourner to the sons of my mother.
| כי-קנאת ביתך אכלתני וחרפות חורפיך נפלו עלי | 9 |
For zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproached you have fallen upon me.
| ואבכה בצום נפשי ותהי לחרפות לי | 10 |
And I covered my soul with fasting, and it has become a reproach to me.
| ואתנה לבושי שק ואהי להם למשל | 11 |
And I put on a haircloth as my garment, and I became a parable to them.
| ישיחו בי ישבי שער ונגינות שותי שכר | 12 |
Those who sat at the gate spoke against me, and those who drank wine made me their song.
| ואני תפלתי-לך יהוה עת רצון-- אלהים ברב-חסדך ענני באמת ישעך | 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.
| הצילני מטיט ואל-אטבעה אנצלה משנאי וממעמקי מים | 14 |
Rescue me from the quagmire, so that I may not become trapped. Free me from those who hate me and from deep waters.
| אל-תשטפני שבלת מים-- ואל-תבלעני מצולה ואל-תאטר-עלי באר פיה | 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.
| ענני יהוה כי-טוב חסדך כרב רחמיך פנה אלי | 16 |
Hear me, O Lord, for your mercy is kind. Look upon me, according to the fullness of your compassion.
| ואל-תסתר פניך מעבדך כי-צר-לי מהר ענני | 17 |
And do not turn your face away from your servant, for I am in trouble: heed me quickly.
| קרבה אל-נפשי גאלה למען איבי פדני | 18 |
Attend to my soul, and free it. Rescue me, because of my enemies.
| אתה ידעת--חרפתי ובשתי וכלמתי נגדך כל-צוררי | 19 |
You know my reproach, and my confusion, and my reverence.
| חרפה שברה לבי-- ואנושה ואקוה לנוד ואין ולמנחמים ולא מצאתי | 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.
| ויתנו בברותי ראש ולצמאי ישקוני חמץ | 21 |
And they gave me gall for my food. And in my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
| יהי-שלחנם לפניהם לפח ולשלומים למוקש | 22 |
Let their table be a snare before them, and a retribution, and a scandal.
| תחשכנה עיניהם מראות ומתניהם תמיד המעד | 23 |
Let their eyes be darkened, so that they may not see, and may their back always be crooked.
| שפך-עליהם זעמך וחרון אפך ישיגם | 24 |
Pour out your indignation upon them, and may the fury of your anger take hold of them.
| תהי-טירתם נשמה באהליהם אל-יהי ישב | 25 |
May their dwelling place be deserted, and may there be no one who dwells in their tabernacles.
| כי-אתה אשר-הכית רדפו ואל-מכאוב חלליך יספרו | 26 |
For they persecuted whomever you struck. And they have added to the grief of my wounds.
| תנה-עון על-עונם ואל-יבאו בצדקתך | 27 |
Assign an iniquity upon their iniquity, and may they not enter into your justice.
| ימחו מספר חיים ועם צדיקים אל-יכתבו | 28 |
Delete them from the Book of the Living, and let them not be written down with the just.
| ואני עני וכואב ישועתך אלהים תשגבני | 29 |
I am poor and sorrowful, but your salvation, O God, has taken me up.
| אהללה שם-אלהים בשיר ואגדלנו בתודה | 30 |
I will praise the name of God with a canticle, and I will magnify him with praise.
| ותיטב ליהוה משור פר מקרן מפריס | 31 |
And it will please God more than a new calf producing horns and hoofs.
| ראו ענוים ישמחו דרשי אלהים ויחי לבבכם | 32 |
Let the poor see and rejoice. Seek God, and your soul will live.
| כי-שמע אל-אביונים יהוה ואת-אסיריו לא בזה | 33 |
For the Lord has heard the poor, and he has not despised his prisoners.
| יהללוהו שמים וארץ ימים וכל-רמש בם | 34 |
Let the heavens and the earth praise him: the sea, and everything that crawls in it.
| כי אלהים יושיע ציון ויבנה ערי יהודה וישבו שם וירשוה | 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.
| וזרע עבדיו ינחלוה ואהבי שמו ישכנו-בה | 36 |
And the offspring of his servants will possess it; and those who love his name will dwell in it.
