Psalms 69
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Psalm 69
Prayer for Deliverance from Persecution
To the leader: according to Lilies. Of David.
1 #
vv 14, 15
Save me, O God,
for the waters have come up to my neck.
2 #
Ps 40.2; Jon 2.3 I sink in deep mire,
where there is no foothold;
I have come into deep waters,
and the flood sweeps over me.
3 #
Ps 6.6; 119.82; Isa 38.14 I am weary with my crying;
my throat is parched.
My eyes grow dim
with waiting for my God.
4 #
Ps 35.11, 19; 38.19; Jn 15.25 More in number than the hairs of my head
are those who hate me without cause;
many are those who would destroy me,
my enemies who accuse me falsely.
What I did not steal,
must I now restore?
5 #
Ps 38.5; 44.21 O God, you know my folly;
the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you.
6Do not let those who hope in you be put to shame because of me,
O Lord God of hosts;
do not let those who seek you be dishonored because of me,
O God of Israel.
7 #
Jer 15.15
It is for your sake that I have borne reproach,
that shame has covered my face.
8 #
Ps 31.11; Isa 53.3 I have become a stranger to my kindred,
an alien to my mother’s children.
9 #
Ps 89.50; Jn 2.17 It is zeal for your house that has consumed me;
the insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.
10 #
Ps 35.13
When I humbled my soul with fasting,#69.10 Gk Syr: Heb I wept, with fasting my soul, or I made my soul mourn with fasting
they insulted me for doing so.
11 #
Ps 35.13; Jer 24.9 When I made sackcloth my clothing,
I became a byword to them.
12 #
Job 30.9
I am the subject of gossip for those who sit in the gate,
and the drunkards make songs about me.
13 #
Ps 51.1; Isa 49.8; 2 Cor 6.2 But as for me, my prayer is to you, O Lord.
At an acceptable time, O God,
in the abundance of your steadfast love, answer me.
With your faithful help 14#v 2; Ps 144.7rescue me
from sinking in the mire;
let me be delivered from my enemies
and from the deep waters.
15 #
Num 16.33; Ps 124.4, 5 Do not let the flood sweep over me
or the deep swallow me up
or the Pit close its mouth over me.
16 #
Ps 25.16; 51.1; 63.3 Answer me, O Lord, for your steadfast love is good;
according to your abundant mercy, turn to me.
17 #
Ps 27.9; 66.14 Do not hide your face from your servant,
for I am in distress—make haste to answer me.
18Draw near to me; redeem me;
set me free because of my enemies.
19 #
Ps 22.6, 7; Isa 53.3 You know the insults I receive
and my shame and dishonor;
my foes are all known to you.
20 #
Job 16.2; Isa 63.5; Jer 23.9 Insults have broken my heart,
so that I am in despair.
I looked for pity, but there was none;
and for comforters, but I found none.
21 #
Mt 27.34; Jn 19.29 They gave me poison for food,
and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22 #
Rom 11.9, 10 Let their table be a trap for them,
a snare for their allies.
23 #
Isa 6.9, 10; Dan 5.6 Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see,
and make their loins tremble continually.
24 #
Ps 79.6
Pour out your indignation upon them,
and let your burning anger overtake them.
25 #
Mt 23.38; Acts 1.20 May their camp be a desolation;
let no one live in their tents.
26 #
Isa 53.4
For they persecute those whom you have struck down,
and those whom you have wounded they attack still more.#69.26 Gk Syr: Heb recount the pain of
27Add guilt to their guilt;
may they have no acquittal from you.
28 #
Ex 32.32; Phil 4.3 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living;
let them not be enrolled among the righteous.
29 #
Ps 59.1; 70.5 But I am lowly and in pain;
let your salvation, O God, protect me.
30 #
Ps 28.7; 34.3; 50.14 I will praise the name of God with a song;
I will magnify him with thanksgiving.
31 #
Ps 50.13, 14 This will please the Lord more than an ox
or a bull with horns and hoofs.
32 #
Ps 22.26; 34.2 Let the oppressed see it and be glad;
you who seek God, let your hearts revive.
33 #
Ps 68.6
For the Lord hears the needy
and does not despise his own who are in bonds.
34 #
Ps 96.11; 148.1; Isa 44.23; 49.13 Let heaven and earth praise him,
the seas and everything that moves in them.
35 #
Ps 51.18; Isa 44.26 For God will save Zion
and rebuild the cities of Judah,
and his servants shall live#69.35 Syr: Heb and they shall live there and possess it;
36 #
Ps 37.29; 102.28 the children of his servants shall inherit it,
and those who love his name shall live in it.
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