Psalms 69

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.

“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!

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.

I sink in deep mire, where is no standing; I have come into deep waters, and the waves flow over me.

3 I have endured hardships, while crying out. My jaws have become hoarse; my eyes have failed. Meanwhile, I hope in my God.

I am weary with crying; my throat is parched; Mine eyes are wasted, while I wait for my God.

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.

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.

5 O God, you know my foolishness, and my offenses have not been hidden from you.

O God! thou knowest my offences, And my sins are not hidden from thee!

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.

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!

7 For because of you, I have endured reproach; confusion has covered my face.

For on account of thee do I suffer reproach, And shame covereth my face!

8 I have become a stranger to my brothers and a sojourner to the sons of my mother.

I am become a stranger to my brothers; Yea, an alien to my mother's sons.

9 For zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproached you have fallen upon me.

For zeal for thy house consumeth me, And the reproaches of them that reproach thee fall upon me.

10 And I covered my soul with fasting, and it has become a reproach to me.

When I weep and fast, That is made my reproach;

11 And I put on a haircloth as my garment, and I became a parable to them.

When I clothe myself in sackcloth, Then I become their by-word.

12 Those who sat at the gate spoke against me, and those who drank wine made me their song.

They who sit in the gate speak against me, And I am become the song of drunkards.

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.

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!

14 Rescue me from the quagmire, so that I may not become trapped. Free me from those who hate me and from deep waters.

Save me from the mire, and let me not sink; May I be delivered from my enemies, —from the deep waters!

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.

Let not the water-flood overflow me; Let not the deep swallow me up, And let not the pit close her mouth upon me!

16 Hear me, O Lord, for your mercy is kind. Look upon me, according to the fullness of your compassion.

Hear me, O LORD! since great is thy loving-kindness; According to the abundance of thy tender mercies look upon me!

17 And do not turn your face away from your servant, for I am in trouble: heed me quickly.

Hide not thy face from thy servant; I am greatly distressed, O make haste to mine aid!

18 Attend to my soul, and free it. Rescue me, because of my enemies.

Draw near to me, and redeem my life; Deliver me because of my enemies!

19 You know my reproach, and my confusion, and my reverence.

Thou knowest my reproach, and dishonor, and shame; All my adversaries are in thy view!

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.

Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness; I look for pity, but there is none; For comforters, but find none.

21 And they gave me gall for my food. And in my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.

For my food they give me gall, And in my thirst they give me vinegar to drink.

22 Let their table be a snare before them, and a retribution, and a scandal.

May their table be to them a snare; May it be a trap to them, while they are at ease!

23 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they may not see, and may their back always be crooked.

May their eyes be darkened, that they may not see; And cause their loins continually to shake!

24 Pour out your indignation upon them, and may the fury of your anger take hold of them.

Pour out upon them thine indignation, And may the heat of thine anger overtake them!

25 May their dwelling place be deserted, and may there be no one who dwells in their tabernacles.

Let their habitation be desolate, And let none dwell in their tents!

26 For they persecuted whomever you struck. And they have added to the grief of my wounds.

For they persecute those whom thou hast smitten, And talk of the pain of those whom thou hast wounded.

27 Assign an iniquity upon their iniquity, and may they not enter into your justice.

Add iniquity to their iniquity, And let them never come into thy favor!

28 Delete them from the Book of the Living, and let them not be written down with the just.

Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; Let not their names be written with the righteous!

29 I am poor and sorrowful, but your salvation, O God, has taken me up.

But I am poor, and sorrowful: May thine aid, O God! set me on high!

30 I will praise the name of God with a canticle, and I will magnify him with praise.

Then I will praise the name of God in a song; I will give glory to him with thanksgiving.

31 And it will please God more than a new calf producing horns and hoofs.

More pleasing shall this be to the LORD Than a full-horned and full-hoofed bullock.

32 Let the poor see and rejoice. Seek God, and your soul will live.

The afflicted shall see, and rejoice; The hearts of them that fear God shall be revived.

33 For the Lord has heard the poor, and he has not despised his prisoners.

For the LORD heareth the poor, And despiseth not his people in their bonds.

34 Let the heavens and the earth praise him: the sea, and everything that crawls in it.

Let the heaven and the earth praise him; The sea, and all that move therein!

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.

For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah, That they may dwell therein, and possess it.

36 And the offspring of his servants will possess it; and those who love his name will dwell in it.

Yea, the posterity of his servants shall possess it, And they that love him shall dwell therein.