AFV2020 - Psalms - 69

69:1  To the Chief Musician. "Concerning the Lilies." A Psalm of David.Save me, O God, for the waters have come in upon my soul!

69:2  I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing; I have come into deep waters, where the floods overwhelm me.

69:3  I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched; my eyes fail while I wait for my God.

69:4  Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; those who would cut me off are mighty being wrongfully my enemies. Should I restore what I did not take away?

69:5  O God, You know my foolishness, and my sins are not hidden from You.

69:6  Do not let those who wait on You, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed because of me; let not the ones who seek You be ashamed because of me, O 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 and an alien to My mother's children,

69:9  For the zeal of Your house has eaten Me up, and the reproaches of those who reproached You have fallen upon Me.

69:10  When I wept in my soul with fasting, it became my reproach.

69:11  I also made sackcloth my clothing, and I became a proverb to them.

69:12  Those who sit in the gate speak about me; and I was the song of the drunkards.

69:13  But as for me, my prayer is to You, O LORD, in an acceptable time; O God, in the abundance of Your mercy answer me, in the truth of Your salvation.

69:14  Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink; let me be delivered from those who hate me and out of the deep waters.

69:15  Do not let the flood of waters overflow me, nor let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.

69:16  Answer me, O LORD, for Your steadfast love is good; turn unto me according to the multitude of Your tender mercies.

69:17  And hide not Your face from Your servant, for I am in trouble; answer me speedily.

69:18  Draw near unto my soul and redeem it; deliver me because of my enemies.

69:19  You have known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor; my enemies are all before You.

69:20  Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness; and I looked for sympathy, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

69:21  They also gave Me gall for My food; and in My thirst they gave Me vinegar to drink.

69:22  Let their table become a snare before them; and when they are at peace, let it become a trap.

69:23  Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see; and make their loins shake without ceasing.

69:24  Pour out Your indignation upon them, and let the fierceness of anger take hold of them.

69:25  Let their encampment be desolate; let none dwell in their tents,

69:26  For they persecute him whom You have stricken, and they recount the grief of those You have wounded.

69:27  Add iniquity unto their iniquity, and let them not 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 poor and sorrowful; let Your salvation, O God, set me up on high.

69:30  I will praise the name of God with a song and will magnify Him with thanksgiving.

69:31  This also shall please the LORD better than a bullock that has horns and hoofs.

69:32  The humble shall see and be glad; and your heart shall live, you who seek God,

69:33  For the LORD hears the needy and does not despise His prisoners.

69:34  Let the heavens and earth praise Him, the seas, and everything that moves in them,

69:35  For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah; so that they may dwell there and possess it.

69:36  And the seed of His servants shall inherit it, and those who love His name shall dwell in it.