Psalms 69
1 To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in to 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 of my crying: my throat is dried: my 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 my head: they that would destroy me, being my 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, 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.
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 to my brethren, and an alien to my mother’s children.
I became to my kindred a foreigner, to my mother’s sons a stranger.
9 For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee have 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 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to 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 speak against me; and I was 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 to thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
But I pray to you, Lord, for a time of favor. 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 water flood overflow 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 Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn to me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
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 trouble: hear me speedily.
Hide not your face from your servant, for I am in trouble; O answer me speedily.
18 Draw near to my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of my enemies.
Draw near to me, redeem me; because of my enemies, ransom me.
19 Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: my 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 food; 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 become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, 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 thy indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
Pour your indignation upon them, let your burning wrath overtake them.
25 Let their habitation be desolate; and 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 talk to the grief 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 to 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 the living, 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 This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bull that hath horns and hoofs.
which shall please the Lord better than ox, or than bullock with horns and hoofs.
32 The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
The oppressed shall rejoice at the sight. You who seek after God, let your heart revive.
33 For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
For the Lord listens to the poor, he does not despise his prisoners.
34 Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth in it.
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 will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell 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 in it.
His servants’ children shall have it for heritage, and those who love him shall live therein.
