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Psalms

Chapter 69

  • 1

    Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.

  • 2

    I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

  • 3

    I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

  • 4

    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.

  • 5

    O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.

  • 6

    Let 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.

  • 7

    Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

  • 8

    I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.

  • 9

    For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

  • 10

    When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.

  • 11

    I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.

  • 12

    They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.

  • 13

    But 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.

  • 14

    Deliver 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.

  • 15

    Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

  • 16

    Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.

  • 17

    And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.

  • 18

    Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.

  • 19

    Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.

  • 20

    Reproach 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

    They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

  • 22

    Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

  • 23

    Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.

  • 24

    Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.

  • 25

    Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.

  • 26

    For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.

  • 27

    Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.

  • 28

    Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.

  • 29

    But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.

  • 30

    I 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.

  • 32

    The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.

  • 33

    For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.

  • 34

    Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.

  • 35

    For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.

  • 36

    The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.