AB - Psalms - 69

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

69:2  I am stuck fast in deep mire, and there is no standing: I have come in to the depths of the sea, and a storm has overwhelmed me.

69:3  I am weary of crying, my throat has become hoarse; my eyes have failed by my waiting on my God.

69:4  Those that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; my enemies that persecute me unrighteously are strengthened. Then I restored that which I took not away.

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

69:6  Let not them that wait on You, O Lord of hosts, be ashamed on my account; let not them that seek You, be ashamed on my account, O God of Israel.

69:7  For I have suffered reproach for Your sake; shame has covered my face.

69:8  I became strange to my brethren, and a stranger to my mother's children.

69:9  For the zeal of Your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached You have fallen upon me.

69:10  And I bowed down my soul with fasting, and that was made my reproach.

69:11  And I put on sackcloth for my covering; and I became a proverb to them.

69:12  Those that sit in the gate talked against me, and those that drank wine sang against me.

69:13  But I will cry to You, O Lord, in my prayer; O God, it is a propitious time: in the multitude of Your mercy hear me, in the truth of Your salvation.

69:14  Save me from the mire, that I stick not in it; let me be delivered from them that hate me, and from the deep waters.

69:15  Let not the floodwater drown me, nor let the deep swallow me up; neither let the well shut its mouth upon me.

69:16  Hear me, O Lord; for Your mercy is good: according to the multitude of Your compassions, look upon me.

69:17  And turn not away Your face from Your servant; for I am afflicted; hear me speedily.

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

69:19  For You know my reproach, and my shame, and my confusion; all that afflict me are before You.

69:20  My soul has waited for reproach and misery; and I waited for one to grieve with me, but there was none; and for one to comfort me, but I found none.

69:21  They gave me also gall for my food, and made me drink vinegar for my thirst.

69:22  Let their table before them be for a snare, and for a recompense, and for a stumbling block.

69:23  Let their eyes be darkened that they should not see; and bow down their back continually.

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

69:25  Let their habitation be made desolate; and let there be no inhabitant in their tents;

69:26  because they persecuted him whom You have smitten; and they have added to the grief of my wounds.

69:27  Add iniquity to their iniquity; and let them not come into Your righteousness.

69:28  Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and let them not be written with the righteous.

69:29  I am poor and sorrowful; but the salvation of Your countenance has helped me.

69:30  I will praise the name of my God with a song, I will magnify Him with praise;

69:31  and this shall please God more than a young calf having horns and hoofs.

69:32  Let the poor see and rejoice; seek the Lord diligently, and you shall live.

69:33  For the Lord hears the poor, and does not despise His prisoners.

69:34  Let the heavens and the earth praise Him, the sea, and all things moving in them.

69:35  For God will save Zion, and the cities of Judah shall be built; and men shall dwell there, and inherit it.

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