Psalms 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.
For the leader. On shoshannim. Of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are threatening my life.
2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
I am sunk in depths of mire, where ground there is none. I am come into deep deep waters, the flood overwhelms me.
3 I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
I am weary of crying, my throat is parched, my eyes are wasted with waiting for God.
4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would cut me off, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
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?
5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
O God, you know my folly, my guilt is not hidden from you.
6 Let not them that wait on thee be ashamed through me, O Lord GOD of hosts: let not those that seek thee be brought to dishonour through me, O God of Israel.
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.
7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
It’s in your cause that I have borne taunts, and my face has been covered with shame;
8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.
I became to my kindred a foreigner, to my mother’s sons a stranger.
9 For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproach thee are fallen upon me.
It was zeal for your house that consumed me, and the insults they hurled at you fell upon me.
10 When I wept, [and chastened] my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
When I chastened myself with fasting, they took occasion to taunt me.
11 When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a proverb unto them.
When I put on a garment of sackcloth, they made me the theme of a taunt-song.
12 They that sit in the gate talk of me; and [I am] the song of the drunkards.
Those who sit in the gate make sport of me in the music of drunken songs.
13 But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy, answer me in the truth of thy salvation.
But I pray to you, Lord, for a time of favour. In your great love answer me; with your loyal help, save me
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.
from sinking down in the mire. Lift me out of the deep deep waters,
15 Let not the waterflood overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up; and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
that the rushing flood may not drown me, that the deep may not swallow me up, nor the pit close her mouth upon me.
16 Answer me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: according to the multitude of thy tender mercies turn thou unto me.
Answer me, Lord, in your gracious kindness, turn to me in your great compassion.
17 And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in distress; answer me speedily.
Hide not your face from your servant, for I am in trouble; O answer me speedily.
18 Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: ransom me because of mine enemies.
Draw near to me, redeem me; because of my enemies, ransom me.
19 Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.
You know how I am insulted; in your sight are all my foes.
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.
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.
21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Poison they gave me for food, and to slake my thirst they gave vinegar.
22 Let their table before them become a snare; and when they are in peace, [let it become] a trap.
May their table, outspread, be a trap to them, and their peace-offerings be a snare.
23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
May their eyes be darkened and blind, make them shake without ceasing.
24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let the fierceness of thine anger overtake them.
Pour your indignation upon them, let your burning wrath overtake them.
25 Let their habitation be desolate; let none dwell in their tents.
May their camp be a desolation, in their tents be there none to live.
26 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they tell of the sorrow of those whom thou hast wounded,
For those whom you struck, they persecute, and those whom you wounded, they pain yet more.
27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.
Charge them with sin upon sin, may they not be acquitted by you.
28 Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.
From the book of life be they blotted, may their names not be written with the righteous.
29 But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
Lift me, O God, by your help above my pain and misery.
30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
Then will I praise God in song and magnify him with thanksgiving,
31 And it shall please the LORD better than an ox, [or] a bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
which shall please the Lord better than ox, or than bullock with horns and hoofs.
32 The meek have seen it, and are glad: ye that seek after God, let your heart live.
The oppressed shall rejoice at the sight. You who seek after God, let your heart revive.
33 For the LORD heareth the needy, and despiseth not his prisoners.
For the Lord listens to the poor, he does not despise his prisoners.
34 Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.
Let the heavens and the earth sing his praises, the seas, and all creatures that move in them.
35 For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah; and they shall abide there, and have it in possession.
For God will bring help to Zion, and build up the cities of Judah, his people shall live there in possession.
36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it; and they that love his name shall dwell therein.
His servants’ children shall have it for heritage, and those who love him shall live therein.
