UKJV - Psalms - 69

69:1  Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.

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

69:3  I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

69:4  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.

69:5  O God, you know my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from you.

69:6  Let not them that wait on you, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek you be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.

69:7  Because for your sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face.

69:8  I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an foreigner unto my mother's children.

69:9  For the zeal of your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached you are fallen upon me.

69:10  When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.

69:11  I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.

69:12  They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.

69:13  But as for me, my prayer is unto you, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of your mercy hear 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 them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

69:15  Let not the flood of waters overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

69:16  Hear me, O LORD; for your loving kindness 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: hear me speedily.

69:18  Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.

69:19  You have known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before you.

69:20  Reproach has 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.

69:21  They gave me also 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 that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

69:23  Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.

69:24  Pour out your indignation upon them, and let your wrathful anger take hold of them.

69:25  Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.

69:26  For they persecute him whom you have smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom 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 the living, 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 an ox or bullock that has horns and hoofs.

69:32  The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.

69:33  For the LORD hears the poor, and despises not his prisoners.

69:34  Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moves therein.

69:35  For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.

69:36  The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.