Noyes - Psalms - 69

69:1  Save me, O God! For the waters press in to my very life!

69:2  I sink in deep mire, where is no standing; I have come into deep waters, and the waves flow over me.

69:3  I am weary with crying; my throat is parched; Mine eyes are wasted, while I wait for my God.

69:4  More numerous than the hairs of my head are they who hate me without reason; Mighty are they who seek to destroy me, being my enemies without cause: I must restore what I took not away.

69:5  O God! thou knowest my offences, And my sins are not hidden from thee!

69:6  Let not them that trust in thee through me be put to shame, O Lord Jehovah, God of hosts! Let not them that seek thee through me be confounded, O God of Israel!

69:7  For on account of thee do I suffer reproach, And shame covereth my face!

69:8  I am become a stranger to my brothers; Yea, an alien to my mother’s sons.

69:9  For zeal for thy house consumeth me, And the reproaches of them that reproach thee fall upon me.

69:10  When I weep and fast, That is made my reproach;

69:11  When I clothe myself in sackcloth, Then I become their by-word.

69:12  They who sit in the gate speak against me, And I am become the song of drunkards.

69:13  Yet will I address my prayer to thee, O LORD! May it be in an acceptable time according to thy great goodness! Hear, O God! and afford me thy sure help!

69:14  Save me from the mire, and let me not sink; May I be delivered from my enemies,—from the deep waters!

69:15  Let not the water-flood overflow me; Let not the deep swallow me up, And let not the pit close her mouth upon me!

69:16  Hear me, O LORD! since great is thy loving-kindness; According to the abundance of thy tender mercies look upon me!

69:17  Hide not thy face from thy servant; I am greatly distressed, O make haste to mine aid!

69:18  Draw near to me, and redeem my life; Deliver me because of my enemies!

69:19  Thou knowest my reproach, and dishonor, and shame; All my adversaries are in thy view!

69:20  Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness; I look for pity, but there is none; For comforters, but find none.

69:21  For my food they give me gall, And in my thirst they give me vinegar to drink.

69:22  May their table be to them a snare; May it be a trap to them, while they are at ease!

69:23  May their eyes be darkened, that they may not see; And cause their loins continually to shake!

69:24  Pour out upon them thine indignation, And may the heat of thine anger overtake them!

69:25  Let their habitation be desolate, And let none dwell in their tents!

69:26  For they persecute those whom thou hast smitten, And talk of the pain of those whom thou hast wounded.

69:27  Add iniquity to their iniquity, And let them never come into thy favor!

69:28  Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; Let not their names be written with the righteous!

69:29  But I am poor, and sorrowful: May thine aid, O God! set me on high!

69:30  Then I will praise the name of God in a song; I will give glory to him with thanksgiving.

69:31  More pleasing shall this be to the LORD Than a full-horned and full-hoofed bullock.

69:32  The afflicted shall see, and rejoice; The hearts of them that fear God shall be revived.

69:33  For the LORD heareth the poor, And despiseth not his people in their bonds.

69:34  Let the heaven and the earth praise him; The sea, and all that move therein!

69:35  For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah, That they may dwell therein, and possess it.

69:36  Yea, the posterity of his servants shall possess it, And they that love him shall dwell therein.