Psalms - 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.