Psalm Chapter 69 Back NextPsalm 69 For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Lilies." By
David.
{69:1} Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!
{69:2} I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the
floods overflow me.
{69:3} I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
{69:4} Those who hate me without a cause are more than the
hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn't take away.
{69:5} God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren't hidden from you.
{69:6} Don't let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord Yahweh of Armies. Don't let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of
Israel.
{69:7} Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.
{69:8} I have become a stranger to my
brothers, an alien to my mother's children.
{69:9} For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
{69:10} When I wept and I
fasted, that was to my reproach.
{69:11} When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a
byword to them.
{69:12} Those who sit in the
gate talk about me. I am the song of the
drunkards.
{69:13} But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.
{69:14} Deliver me out of the mire, and don't let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.
{69:15} Don't let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don't let the pit shut its mouth on me.
{69:16} Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.
{69:17} Don't hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!
{69:18} Draw near to my soul, and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.
{69:19} You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you.
{69:20} Reproach has broken my
heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.
{69:21} They also gave me
gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to
drink.
{69:22} Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.
{69:23} Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can't see. Let their backs be continually bent.
{69:24} Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.
{69:25} Let their
habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.
{69:26} For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.
{69:27} Charge them with crime upon crime. Don't let them come into your righteousness.
{69:28} Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.
{69:29} But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me.
{69:30} I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
{69:31} It will please Yahweh better than an ox, or a bull that has
horns and
hoofs.
{69:32} The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.
{69:33} For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn't despise his
captive people.
{69:34} Let
heaven and
earth praise him; the seas, and everything that moves therein!
{69:35} For God will save Zion, and build the cities of
Judah. They shall settle there, and own it.
{69:36} The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell therein.
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