Psalm 69

¹ For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshannim. A Psalm of David. Save me, O God; For the waters are come in unto my soul.

² I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

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

⁴ They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: They that would cut me off, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: That which I took not away I have to restore.

⁵ O God, thou knowest my foolishness; And my sins are not hid from thee.

⁶ Let not them that wait for thee be put to shame through me, O Lord Jehovah of hosts: Let not those that seek thee be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel.

⁷ Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; Shame hath covered my face.

⁸ I am become a stranger unto my brethren, And an alien unto my mother’s children.

⁹ For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up; And the reproaches of them that reproach thee are fallen upon me.

¹⁰ When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, That was to my reproach.

¹¹ When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword unto them.

¹² They that sit in the gate talk of me; And I am the song of the drunkards.

¹³ But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Jehovah, in an acceptable time: O God, in the abundance of thy lovingkindness, Answer me in the truth of thy salvation.

¹⁴ Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: Let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

¹⁵ Let not the waterflood overwhelm me, Neither let the deep swallow me up; And let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.

¹⁶ Answer me, O Jehovah; for thy lovingkindness is good: According to the multitude of thy tender mercies turn thou unto me.

¹⁷ And hide not thy face from thy servant; For I am in distress; answer me speedily.

¹⁸ Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: Ransom me because of mine enemies.

¹⁹ Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: Mine adversaries are all before thee.

²⁰ Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.

²¹ They gave me also gall for my food; And in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

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

²³ Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see; And make their loins continually to shake.

²⁴ Pour out thine indignation upon them, And let the fierceness of thine anger overtake them.

²⁵ Let their habitation be desolate; Let none dwell in their tents.

²⁶ For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; And they tell of the sorrow of those whom thou hast wounded.

²⁷ Add iniquity unto 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 with the righteous.

²⁹ But I am poor and sorrowful: Let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.

³⁰ I will praise the name of God with a song, And will magnify him with thanksgiving.

³¹ And it will please Jehovah better than an ox, Or a bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

³² The meek have seen it, and are glad: Ye that seek after God, let your heart live.

³³ For Jehovah heareth the needy, And despiseth not his prisoners.

³⁴ Let heaven and earth praise him, The seas, and everything that moveth therein.

³⁵ For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah; And they shall abide there, and have it in possession.

³⁶ The seed also of his servants shall inherit it; And they that love his name shall dwell therein.