Psalms 69
1 For the leader. On shoshannim. Of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are threatening my life.
To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in to my soul.
2 I am sunk in depths of mire, where ground there is none. I am come into deep deep waters, the flood overwhelms me.
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 of crying, my throat is parched, my eyes are wasted with waiting for God.
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: my eyes fail while I wait for my God.
4 More than the hairs of my head are those who wantonly hate me. More than my bones in number are those who are falsely my foes. That which I never robbed, how am I then to restore?
They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: they that would destroy me, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
5 O God, you know my folly, my guilt is not hidden from you.
O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
6 Through me let not any be shamed, who wait for you, Lord God of hosts. Through me let not those be confounded who seek you, O God of Israel.
Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
7 It’s in your cause that I have borne taunts, and my face has been covered with shame;
Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
8 I became to my kindred a foreigner, to my mother’s sons a stranger.
I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to my mother’s children.
9 It was zeal for your house that consumed me, and the insults they hurled at you fell upon me.
For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee have fallen upon me.
10 When I chastened myself with fasting, they took occasion to taunt me.
When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
11 When I put on a garment of sackcloth, they made me the theme of a taunt-song.
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
12 Those who sit in the gate make sport of me in the music of drunken songs.
They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
13 But I pray to you, Lord, for a time of favour. In your great love answer me; with your loyal help, save me
But as for me, my prayer is to thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
14 from sinking down in the mire. Lift me out of the deep deep waters,
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 that the rushing flood may not drown me, that the deep may not swallow me up, nor the pit close her mouth upon me.
Let not the water flood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
16 Answer me, Lord, in your gracious kindness, turn to me in your great compassion.
Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn to me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
17 Hide not your face from your servant, for I am in trouble; O answer me speedily.
And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
18 Draw near to me, redeem me; because of my enemies, ransom me.
Draw near to my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of my enemies.
19 You know how I am insulted; in your sight are all my foes.
Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: my adversaries are all before thee.
20 Insult has broken my heart, past cure are my shame and confusion. For pity I looked – there was none! And for comforters, but I found none.
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 Poison they gave me for food, and to slake my thirst they gave vinegar.
They gave me also gall for my food; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22 May their table, outspread, be a trap to them, and their peace-offerings be a snare.
Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
23 May their eyes be darkened and blind, make them shake without ceasing.
Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
24 Pour your indignation upon them, let your burning wrath overtake them.
Pour out thy indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
25 May their camp be a desolation, in their tents be there none to live.
Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
26 For those whom you struck, they persecute, and those whom you wounded, they pain yet more.
For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
27 Charge them with sin upon sin, may they not be acquitted by you.
Add iniquity to their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.
28 From the book of life be they blotted, may their names not be written with the righteous.
Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
29 Lift me, O God, by your help above my pain and misery.
But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
30 Then will I praise God in song and magnify him with thanksgiving,
I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
31 which shall please the Lord better than ox, or than bullock with horns and hoofs.
This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bull that hath horns and hoofs.
32 The oppressed shall rejoice at the sight. You who seek after God, let your heart revive.
The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
33 For the Lord listens to the poor, he does not despise his prisoners.
For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
34 Let the heavens and the earth sing his praises, the seas, and all creatures that move in them.
Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth in it.
35 For God will bring help to Zion, and build up the cities of Judah, his people shall live there in possession.
For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.
36 His servants’ children shall have it for heritage, and those who love him shall live therein.
The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell in it.
