Jubilee2000 - 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; my eyes fail while I wait for my God.

69:4  Those that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; those that would destroy me, [being] my enemies wrongfully, are mighty; then I restored [that] which I did not take away.

69:5  O God, thou knowest my foolishness, and my guiltiness is not hid from thee.

69:6  Do not let those that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of the hosts, be ashamed for my sake; do not let those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.

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

69:8  I am become a stranger unto my brethren and an alien unto my mother's sons.

69:9  For the zeal of thy house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

69:10  When I wept with fasting of my soul, thou hast been a reproach unto me.

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

69:12  They that sat in the gate spoke against me, and I [was] the song of the drunkards.

69:13  But I [corrected] my prayer unto thee, O LORD, [in] the time of [thy] good pleasure; O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy saving health.

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

69:15  Let not the violent force of the waters overcome 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 thy mercy [is] perceptible, look upon me according to the multitude of thy acts of compassion

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

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

69:19  Thou hast known my reproach and my shame and my dishonour; my adversaries [are] all before thee.

69:20  Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness, and I looked [for some] to take pity, but [there was] no one, 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 [that which should have been] for [their] prosperity, [let it become] a stumbling block.

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

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

69:25  Let their palace be desolate, [and] let no one dwell in their tents.

69:26  For they persecute [him] whom thou hast smitten, and they boast that thou hast slain their enemies.

69:27  Add iniquity unto their iniquity, and let them not come into thy 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 thy saving health, O God, set me up on high.

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

69:31  [This] also shall please the LORD better [than the sacrifice of an ox or] bullock that [struggles] with horns and hoofs.

69:32  The humble shall see [this] [and] be glad; seek God and thy heart shall live.

69:33  For the LORD hears the destitute and does not despise his prisoners.

69:34  Let the heavens and the earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moves in them.

69:35  For God will protect Zion and will rebuild the cities of Judah; they shall dwell there and inherit it.

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