CPDV - Psalms - 68

68:1  Unto the end. For those who will be changed: of David.

68:2  Save me, O God, for the waters have entered, even to my soul.

68:3  I have become stuck in a deep quagmire, and there is no firm footing. I have arrived at the height of the sea, and a tempest has overwhelmed me.

68:4  I have endured hardships, while crying out. My jaws have become hoarse; my eyes have failed. Meanwhile, I hope in my God.

68:5  Those who hate me without cause have been multiplied beyond the hairs of my head. My enemies, who persecuted me unjustly, have been strengthened. Then I was required to pay for what I did not take.

68:6  O God, you know my foolishness, and my offenses have not been hidden from you.

68:7  Let those who wait for you, O Lord, the Lord of hosts, not be shamed in me. Let those who seek you, O God of Israel, not be confounded over me.

68:8  For because of you, I have endured reproach; confusion has covered my face.

68:9  I have become a stranger to my brothers and a sojourner to the sons of my mother.

68:10  For zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproached you have fallen upon me.

68:11  And I covered my soul with fasting, and it has become a reproach to me.

68:12  And I put on a haircloth as my garment, and I became a parable to them.

68:13  Those who sat at the gate spoke against me, and those who drank wine made me their song.

68:14  But as for me, truly, my prayer is to you, O Lord. This time has pleased you well, O God. In the multitude of your mercy, in the truth of your salvation, hear me.

68:15  Rescue me from the quagmire, so that I may not become trapped. Free me from those who hate me and from deep waters.

68:16  Do not allow the tempest of water to submerge me, nor the deep to absorb me. And do not allow the well to close in on me.

68:17  Hear me, O Lord, for your mercy is kind. Look upon me, according to the fullness of your compassion.

68:18  And do not turn your face away from your servant, for I am in trouble: heed me quickly.

68:19  Attend to my soul, and free it. Rescue me, because of my enemies.

68:20  You know my reproach, and my confusion, and my reverence.

68:21  All those who trouble me are in your sight; my heart has anticipated reproach and misery. And I sought for one who might grieve together with me, but there was no one, and for one who might console me, and I found no one.

68:22  And they gave me gall for my food. And in my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.

68:23  Let their table be a snare before them, and a retribution, and a scandal.

68:24  Let their eyes be darkened, so that they may not see, and may their back always be crooked.

68:25  Pour out your indignation upon them, and may the fury of your anger take hold of them.

68:26  May their dwelling place be deserted, and may there be no one who dwells in their tabernacles.

68:27  For they persecuted whomever you struck. And they have added to the grief of my wounds.

68:28  Assign an iniquity upon their iniquity, and may they not enter into your justice.

68:29  Delete them from the Book of the Living, and let them not be written down with the just.

68:30  I am poor and sorrowful, but your salvation, O God, has taken me up.

68:31  I will praise the name of God with a canticle, and I will magnify him with praise.

68:32  And it will please God more than a new calf producing horns and hoofs.

68:33  Let the poor see and rejoice. Seek God, and your soul will live.

68:34  For the Lord has heard the poor, and he has not despised his prisoners.

68:35  Let the heavens and the earth praise him: the sea, and everything that crawls in it.

68:36  For God will save Zion, and the cities of Judah will be built up. And they will dwell there, and they will acquire it by inheritance.

68:37  And the offspring of his servants will possess it; and those who love his name will dwell in it.