Psalms 69
69
A Cry for Help
For the director of music. To the tune of “Lilies.” A psalm of David.
1God, save me,
because the water has risen to my neck.
2I’m sinking down into the mud,
and there is nothing to stand on.
I am in deep water,
and the flood covers me.
3I am tired from calling for help;
my throat is sore.
My eyes are tired from waiting
for God to help me.
4There are more people who hate me for no reason than hairs on my head;
powerful enemies want to destroy me for no reason.
They make me pay back
what I did not steal.
5God, you know what I have done wrong;
I cannot hide my guilt from you.
6Lord God All-Powerful,
do not let those who hope in you be ashamed because of me.
God of Israel,
do not let your worshipers be disgraced because of me.
7For you, I carry this shame,
and my face is covered with disgrace.
8I am like a stranger to my closest relatives
and a foreigner to my mother’s children.
9My strong love for your Temple completely controls me.
When people insult you, it hurts me.
10When I cry and fast,
they make fun of me.
11When I wear clothes of sadness,
they joke about me.
12They make fun of me in public places,
and the drunkards make up songs about me.
13But I pray to you, Lord, for favor.
God, because of your great love, answer me.
You are truly able to save.
14Pull me from the mud,
and do not let me sink.
Save me from those who hate me
and from the deep water.
15Do not let the flood drown me
or the deep water swallow me
or the grave close its mouth over me.
16Lord, answer me because your love is so good.
Because of your great kindness, turn to me.
17Do not hide from me, your servant.
I am in trouble. Hurry to help me!
18Come near and save me;
rescue me from my enemies.
19You see my shame and disgrace.
You know all my enemies and what they have said.
20Insults have broken my heart
and left me weak.
I looked for sympathy, but there was none;
I found no one to comfort me.
21They put poison in my food
and gave me vinegar to drink.
22Let their own feasts cause their ruin;
let their feasts trap them and pay them back.
23Let their eyes be closed so they cannot see
and their backs be forever weak from troubles.
24Pour your anger out on them;
let your anger catch up with them.
25May their place be empty;
leave no one to live in their tents.
26They chase after those you have hurt,
and they talk about the pain of those you have wounded.
27Charge them with crime after crime,
and do not let them have anything good.
28Wipe their names from the book of life,
and do not list them with those who do what is right.
29I am sad and hurting.
God, save me and protect me.
30I will praise God in a song
and will honor him by giving thanks.
31That will please the Lord more than offering him cattle,
more than sacrificing a bull with horns and hoofs.
32Poor people will see this and be glad.
Be encouraged, you who worship God.
33The Lord listens to those in need
and does not look down on captives.
34Heaven and earth should praise him,
the seas and everything in them.
35God will save Jerusalem
and rebuild the cities of Judah.
Then people will live there and own the land.
36The descendants of his servants will inherit that land,
and those who love him will live there.
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Psalm 69
69
A Cry of Distress
To the chief Musician upon Shoshan´nim, A Psalm of David.
1Save me, O God;
for the waters are come in unto my soul.
2I sink in deep mire,
where there is no standing:
I am come into deep waters,
where the floods overflow me.
3I am weary of my crying:
my throat is dried:
mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
4 #
Ps 35.19; John 15.25. 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.
5O God, thou knowest my foolishness;
and my sins are not hid from thee.
6Let 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.
7Because for thy sake I have borne reproach;
shame hath covered my face.
8I am become a stranger unto my brethren,
and an alien unto my mother's children.
9 #
John 2.17;
Rom 15.3. For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up;
and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
10When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting,
that was to my reproach.
11I made sackcloth also my garment;
and I became a proverb to them.
12They that sit in the gate speak against me;
and I was the song of the drunkards.
13But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Lord,
in an acceptable time:
O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me,
in the truth of thy salvation.
14Deliver 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.
15Let not the waterflood overflow me,
neither let the deep swallow me up,
and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
16Hear me, O Lord;
for thy loving-kindness is good:
turn unto me
according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
17And hide not thy face from thy servant;
for I am in trouble:
hear me speedily.
18Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it:
deliver me because of mine enemies.
19Thou hast known my reproach,
and my shame, and my dishonor:
mine adversaries are all before thee.
20Reproach 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 #
Matt 27.48; Mark 15.36; John 19.28,29. They gave me also gall for my meat;
and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22 #
Rom 11.9,10. Let their table become a snare before them:
and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
23Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not;
and make their loins continually to shake.
24Pour out thine indignation upon them,
and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
25 #
Acts 1.20. Let their habitation be desolate;
and let none dwell in their tents.
26For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten;
and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
27Add iniquity unto their iniquity:
and let them not come into thy righteousness.
28 #
Rev 3.5; 13.8; 17.8. Let them be blotted out of the book of the living,
and not be written with the righteous.
29But I am poor and sorrowful:
let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
30I will praise the name of God with a song,
and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
31 This also shall please the Lord better than an ox
or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
32The humble shall see this, and be glad:
and your heart shall live that seek God.
33For the Lord heareth the poor,
and despiseth not his prisoners.
34Let the heaven and earth praise him,
the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.
35For God will save Zion,
and will build the cities of Judah:
that they may dwell there,
and have it in possession.
36The seed also of his servants shall inherit it:
and they that love his name shall dwell therein.
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