Psalms 69

1 Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.

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 standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow 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 of my crying: my throat is dried: mine 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 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.

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 O God, you know my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from you.

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

6 Let not them that wait on you, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek you be confounded for my sake, O 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 Because for your sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face.

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

8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an foreigner unto 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 reproaches of them that reproached you are fallen upon 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 chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.

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

11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.

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

12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the 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 unto you, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of your mercy hear me, in the truth 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 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.

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 Let not the flood of waters overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

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

16 Hear me, O LORD; for your loving kindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of your tender mercies.

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

17 And hide not your face from your servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.

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

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

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

19 You have known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before you.

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

20 Reproach has 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.

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 also gall for my food; and 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 become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, 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, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.

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

24 Pour out your indignation upon them, and let your wrathful anger take hold of them.

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

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

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

26 For they persecute him whom you have smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom you have wounded.

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

27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into your righteousness.

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

28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written 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, O 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 magnify him with thanksgiving.

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

31 This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that has horns and hoofs.

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

32 The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.

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

33 For the LORD hears the poor, and despises not his prisoners.

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

34 Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moves therein.

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

35 For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.

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

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

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