Psalms 69
69
Psalm 69
For the choir director; according to shoshannim; by David.
1Save me, O God!
The water is already up to my neck!
2I am sinking in deep mud.
There is nothing to stand on.
I am in deep water.
A flood is sweeping me away.
3I am exhausted from crying for help.
My throat is hoarse.
My eyes are strained ⌞from⌟ looking for my God.
4Those who hate me for no reason
outnumber the hairs on my head.
Those who want to destroy me are mighty.
They have no reason to be my enemies.
I am forced to pay back what I did not steal.
5O God, you know my stupidity,
and the things of which I am guilty are not hidden from you.
6Do not let those who wait with hope for you
be put to shame because of me, O Almighty Lord of Armies.
Do not let those who come to you for help
be humiliated because of me, O God of Israel.
7Indeed, for your sake I have endured insults.
Humiliation has covered my face.
8I have become a stranger to my ⌞own⌟ brothers,
a foreigner to my mother’s sons.
9Indeed, devotion for your house has consumed me,
and the insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.
10I cried and fasted, but I was insulted for it.
11I dressed myself in sackcloth, but I became the object of ridicule.
12Those who sit at the gate gossip about me,
and drunkards make up songs about me.
13May my prayer come to you at an acceptable time, O Lord.
O God, out of the greatness of your mercy,
answer me with the truth of your salvation.
14Rescue me from the mud.
Do not let me sink ⌞into it⌟.
I want to be rescued from those who hate me
and from the deep water.
15Do not let floodwaters sweep me away.
Do not let the ocean swallow me up,
or the pit close its mouth over me.
16Answer me, O Lord, because your mercy is good.
Out of your unlimited compassion, turn to me.
17I am in trouble, so do not hide your face from me.
Answer me quickly!
18Come close, and defend my soul.
Set me free because of my enemies.
19You know that I have been insulted, put to shame, and humiliated.
All my opponents are in front of you.
20Insults have broken my heart, and I am sick.
I looked for sympathy, but there was none.
I looked for people to comfort me, but I found no one.
21They poisoned my food,
and when I was thirsty, they gave me vinegar to drink.
22Let the table set for them become a trap
and a snare for their friends.
23Let their vision become clouded so that they cannot see.
Let their thighs continually shake.
24Pour your rage on them.
Let your burning anger catch up with them.
25Let their camp be deserted
and their tents empty.
26They persecute the one you have struck,
and they talk about the pain of those you have wounded.
27Charge them with one crime after another.
Do not let them be found innocent.
28Let their ⌞names⌟ be erased from the Book of Life.
Do not let them be listed with righteous people.
29I am suffering and in pain.
Let your saving power protect me, O God.
30I want to praise God’s name with a song.
I want to praise his great name with a song of thanksgiving.
31This will please the Lord more than ⌞sacrificing⌟ an ox
or a bull with horns and hoofs.
32Oppressed people will see ⌞this⌟ and rejoice.
May the hearts of those who look to God for help be refreshed.
33The Lord listens to needy people.
He does not despise his own who are in prison.
34Let heaven and earth, the seas, and everything that moves in them, praise him.
35When God saves Zion, he will rebuild the cities of Judah.
His servants will live there and take possession of it.
36The descendants of his servants will inherit it.
Those who love him will live there.
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Psalm 69
69
To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, 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.
4They 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.
9For 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 lovingkindness 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 dishonour:
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.
21They gave me also gall for my meat;
And in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22Let 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.
25Let 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.
28Let 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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