LEB - Psalms - 69

69:1  Save me, O God, because waters have come up to my neck.

69:2  I sink in the mud of the deep, and there is no foothold. I have come to watery depths, and the torrent floods over me.

69:3  I am weary with my calling out; my throat is parched. My eyes are exhausted in my waiting for my God.

69:4  More numerous than the hairs of my head are those hating me without a cause. Those who are destroying me—my enemies wrongfully— are mighty. What I did not steal, I then must restore.

69:5  O God, ⌞you yourself know⌟ my foolishness, and my guilty deeds are not hidden from you.

69:6  Let those who wait for you not be put to shame because of me, O Lord Yahweh of hosts. Let those who seek you not be disgraced because of me, O God of Israel.

69:7  Because on account of you I have borne reproach; disgrace has covered my face.

69:8  I have become a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my mother’s sons,

69:9  because the zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those reproaching you have fallen on me.

69:10  When I wept in the fasting of my soul, it became reproaches for me.

69:11  When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became for them a byword.

69:12  Those sitting at the gate talk about me as also the songs of the drunkards.

69:13  But as for me, my prayer is to you, O Yahweh, for a favorable time, O God, according to the abundance of your loyal love. Answer me with the faithfulness of your salvation.

69:14  Deliver me from the mud and do not let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me and from the watery depths.

69:15  Do not let the torrent of waters flood over me, or the deep swallow me, or the pit close its mouth over me.

69:16  Answer me, O Yahweh, because your loyal love is good; according to your abundant mercies, turn to me,

69:17  and do not hide your face from your servant. Because I am in trouble, answer me quickly.

69:18  Draw near to my soul; redeem it. Because of my enemies, ransom me.

69:19  You know my reproach, my shame and my disgrace. ⌞Fully known⌟ to you are all my adversaries.

69:20  Reproach has broken my heart and I am sick. And I hoped for sympathy, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.

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

69:22  Let their table before them be a trap, and their times of peace a snare.

69:23  Let their eyes be dark so they cannot see, and make their loins continually tremble.

69:24  Pour out your indignation on them, and let your burning anger overtake them.

69:25  Let their camp be desolate. Let none dwell in their tents,

69:26  because they persecute those whom you, yourself, have struck, and they tell of the pain of those you have wounded.

69:27  ⌞Add guilt on top of their guilt⌟, and do not let them ⌞be acquitted⌟.

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

69:29  But as for me, though I am afflicted and pained, your salvation will protect me, O God.

69:30  I will praise the name of God in song, and magnify him with thanksgiving.

69:31  For Yahweh it will be better than an ox or bull, horned and hoofed.

69:32  The afflicted will see and rejoice. O God seekers, let your heart revive,

69:33  because Yahweh hears the needy and does not despise his own who are prisoners.

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

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

69:36  And the offspring of his servants will inherit it, and those who love his name will abide in it.