Psalms 69
69
A Cry of Anguish in Great Distress
1For the leader; according to “Lilies.”#“Lilies”: apparently the name of the melody. Of David.
I
2Save me, God,
for the waters#Waters: the waters of chaos from which God created the world are a common metaphor for extreme distress, cf. Ps 18:5; 42:8; 88:8; Jon 2:3–6. have reached my neck.#Ps 18:5; 93:3–4; Jb 22:11.
3I have sunk into the mire of the deep,
where there is no foothold.
I have gone down to the watery depths;
the flood overwhelms me.#Ps 40:2; 124:4–5.
4I am weary with crying out;
my throat is parched.
My eyes fail,
from looking for my God.#Ps 25:15; 119:82; 123:2; 141:8; Is 38:14.
5More numerous than the hairs of my head
are those who hate me without cause.#Ps 40:13; Lam 3:52; Jn 15:25.
Those who would destroy me are mighty,
my enemies without reason.
Must I now restore
what I did not steal?#What I did not steal: the psalmist, falsely accused of theft, is being forced to make restitution.
II
6God, you know my folly;
my faults are not hidden from you.
7Let those who wait in hope for you, Lord of hosts,
not be shamed because of me.
Let those who seek you, God of Israel,#Ps 40:17.
not be disgraced because of me.
8For it is on your account I bear insult,
that disgrace covers my face.#Jer 15:15.
9I have become an outcast to my kindred,
a stranger to my mother’s children.#Jb 19:13–15.
10Because zeal for your house has consumed me,#Zeal for your house has consumed me: the psalmist’s commitment to God’s cause brings only opposition, cf. Jn 2:17. I am scorned by those who scorn you: Rom 15:3 uses the verse as an example of Jesus’ unselfishness.
I am scorned by those who scorn you.#Zeal for your house has consumed me: the psalmist’s commitment to God’s cause brings only opposition, cf. Jn 2:17. I am scorned by those who scorn you: Rom 15:3 uses the verse as an example of Jesus’ unselfishness.#Ps 119:139; Jn 2:17; Rom 15:3.
11When I humbled my spirit with fasting,#Ps 109:24–25; Jb 30:9; Lam 3:14.
this led only to scorn.
12When I clothed myself in sackcloth;
I became a byword for them.
13Those who sit in the gate gossip about me;
drunkards make me the butt of songs.
III
14But I will pray to you, Lord,
at a favorable time.
God, in your abundant kindness, answer me
with your sure deliverance.#Is 49:8.
15Rescue me from the mire,#Ps 28:1; 30:4; 32:6; 40:3; 88:5; Prv 1:12.
and do not let me sink.
Rescue me from those who hate me
and from the watery depths.
16Do not let the flood waters overwhelm me,
nor the deep swallow me,
nor the pit close its mouth over me.
17Answer me, Lord, in your generous love;
in your great mercy turn to me.
18Do not hide your face from your servant;
hasten to answer me, for I am in distress.#Ps 102:3; 143:7.
19Come and redeem my life;
because of my enemies ransom me.
20You know my reproach, my shame, my disgrace;
before you stand all my foes.
21Insult has broken my heart, and I despair;
I looked for compassion, but there was none,#Lam 1:2.
for comforters, but found none.
22Instead they gave me poison for my food;
and for my thirst they gave me vinegar.#Lam 3:15; Mt 27:34, 48; Mk 15:23.
IV
23May their own table be a snare for them,
and their communion offerings a trap.#Rom 11:9–10.
24Make their eyes so dim they cannot see;
keep their backs ever feeble.
25Pour out your wrath upon them;
let the fury of your anger overtake them.
26Make their camp desolate,
with none to dwell in their tents.#Acts 1:20.
27For they pursued the one you struck,
added to the pain of the one you wounded.
28Heap punishment upon their punishment;
let them gain from you no vindication.
29May they be blotted from the book of life;
not registered among the just!#Ps 139:16; Ex 32:32; Is 4:3; Dn 12:1; Mal 3:16; Rev 3:5.
V
30But here I am miserable and in pain;
let your saving help protect me, God,
31#That I may praise God’s name in song: the actual song is cited in Ps 69:33–35, the word “praise” in Ps 69:35 referring back to “praise” in Ps 69:31.That I may praise God’s name in song
and glorify it with thanksgiving.
32That will please the Lord more than oxen,
more than bulls with horns and hooves:#Ps 40:7; 50:8–9, 14; 51:18; Is 1:11–15; Hos 6:6; Am 5:21–22; Heb 10:5–8.
33“See, you lowly ones, and be glad;
you who seek God, take heart!#Ps 22:27; 35:27; 70:5.
34For the Lord hears the poor,
and does not spurn those in bondage.
35Let the heaven and the earth praise him,
the seas and whatever moves in them!”
VI
36For God will rescue Zion,
and rebuild the cities of Judah.#Is 44:26; Ez 36:10.
They will dwell there and possess it;
37the descendants of God’s servants will inherit it;
those who love God’s name will dwell in it.#Ps 102:29; Is 65:9.
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Psalm 69
69
Save Me, O God
To the choirmaster: according to #Ps. 45, titleLilies. Of David.
1Save me, O God!
For #ver. 14, 15; See Ps. 32:6; 130:1; Job 22:11the waters have come up to my neck.#69:1 Or waters threaten my life
2I sink in deep #ver. 14; Ps. 40:2 mire,
where there is no foothold;
I have come into deep waters,
and the flood #Ps. 124:4sweeps over me.
3 #
Ps. 6:6 I am weary with my crying out;
# [Ps. 22:15] my throat is parched.
#
Ps. 119:82, 123; Deut. 28:32; Isa. 38:14 My eyes grow dim
with #See Ps. 31:24waiting for my God.
4 #
Ps. 40:12 More in number than the hairs of my head
are #Cited John 15:25 those who hate me #[Ps. 35:7; 59:3, 4; 109:3; 119:161] without cause;
mighty are those who would destroy me,
#
Ps. 35:19; 38:19 those who attack me with lies.
What I did not steal
must I now restore?
5O God, you know my folly;
the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you.
6Let not those who hope in you #See Ps. 25:2be put to shame through me,
O Lord God of hosts;
let not those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me,
O God of Israel.
7For it is #Jer. 15:15; [Ps. 44:22]for your sake that I have borne reproach,
that dishonor has covered my face.
8I have become #[Ps. 31:11; 38:11; Job 19:13; John 1:11]a stranger to my brothers,
an alien to my mother’s sons.
9For #Cited John 2:17; [Ps. 119:139]; See Ps. 132:1-5 zeal for your house has consumed me,
and #Cited Rom. 15:3; [Ps. 89:41, 50]the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
10When I wept and humbled#69:10 Hebrew lacks and humbled my soul with fasting,
it became my reproach.
11When I made #See Ps. 35:13 sackcloth my clothing,
I became #See Job 17:6a byword to them.
12I am the talk of those who #[Gen. 19:1; Esth. 2:19] sit in the gate,
and the drunkards make #See Job 30:9songs about me.
13But as for me, my #Ps. 109:4 prayer is to you, O Lord.
At #Isa. 49:8; 2 Cor. 6:2; [Ps. 32:6]an acceptable time, O God,
in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness.
14Deliver me
from sinking in #ver. 2 the mire;
#
Ps. 144:7 let me be delivered from my enemies
and from #ver. 1, 2the deep waters.
15Let not the flood sweep over me,
or the deep swallow me up,
or #Ps. 55:23 the pit close #Num. 16:33its mouth over me.
16Answer me, O Lord, for your #Ps. 63:3; 109:21 steadfast love is good;
according to your abundant #Ps. 106:45 mercy, #See Ps. 25:16turn to me.
17 # See Ps. 27:9 Hide not your face from your servant,
# See Ps. 18:6 for I am in distress; #Ps. 102:2; 143:7make haste to answer me.
18Draw near to my soul, redeem me;
ransom me because of my enemies!
19You know my #ver. 10, 11; [Heb. 12:2]; See Ps. 22:6reproach,
and my shame and my dishonor;
my foes are all known to you.
20 # [See ver. 19 above] Reproaches have broken my heart,
so that I am in #[Matt. 26:37] despair.
I #Ps. 142:4; [Isa. 63:5] looked for #Jer. 15:5 pity, but there was none,
and for #Job 16:2comforters, but I found none.
21They gave me #Deut. 29:18; Matt. 27:34 poison for food,
and for my thirst they gave me #Matt. 27:48; Luke 23:36; John 19:29; [Mark 15:23]sour wine to drink.
22 # Cited Rom. 11:9, 10; See Ps. 35:4-8; 109:6-15 Let their own #Ps. 23:5 table before them become a snare;
# [1 Thess. 5:3] and when they are at peace, let it become a trap.#69:22 Hebrew; a slight revocalization yields (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Jerome) a snare, and retribution and a trap
23 #
Isa. 6:10; [Matt. 13:14] Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see,
#
Dan. 5:6; Nah. 2:10 and make their loins tremble continually.
24Pour out your indignation upon them,
and let your burning anger overtake them.
25 # Cited Acts 1:20; [Matt. 23:38; Luke 13:35] May their camp be a desolation;
let no one dwell in their tents.
26For they #[Zech. 1:15] persecute him whom #Isa. 53:4 you have struck down,
and they recount the pain of #[Job 19:21]those you have wounded.
27 #
Neh. 4:5
Add to them punishment upon punishment;
may they have no acquittal from you.#69:27 Hebrew may they not come into your righteousness
28Let them be #Ex. 32:32; Rev. 3:5; [Phil. 4:3] blotted out of the book of the living;
let them not be #[Ezek. 13:9; Luke 10:20; Heb. 12:23]enrolled among the righteous.
29But I am afflicted and in pain;
let your salvation, O God, #Ps. 20:1set me on high!
30I will #Ps. 28:7 praise the name of God with a song;
I will #See Ps. 34:3 magnify him with #See Ps. 50:14, 23thanksgiving.
31This will #Ps. 50:13 please the Lord more than an ox
or a bull #Lev. 11:3with horns and hoofs.
32When #Ps. 22:26; 34:2the humble see it they will be glad;
you who seek God, #Ps. 22:26; 34:2let your hearts revive.
33For the Lord hears the needy
and #[Ps. 68:6]does not despise his own people who are prisoners.
34Let #Ps. 96:11; 98:7; Isa. 44:23; 49:13; See Ps. 148:1-12heaven and earth praise him,
the seas and everything that moves in them.
35For #See Ps. 51:18; [Isa. 44:26]God will save Zion
and build up the cities of Judah,
and people shall dwell there and possess it;
36 #
Ps. 102:28; Isa. 65:9; [Ps. 37:29] the offspring of his servants shall inherit it,
and those who love his name shall dwell in it.
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