OEBcth - Psalms - 69

69:1  Save me, O God; for the waters are threatening my life.

69:2  I am sunk in depths of mire, where ground there is none. I am come into deep deep waters, the flood overwhelms me.

69:3  I am weary of crying, my throat is parched, my eyes are wasted with waiting for God.

69:4  More than the hairs of my head are those who wantonly hate me. More than my bones in number are those who are falsely my foes. That which I never robbed, how am I then to restore?

69:5  O God, you know my folly, my guilt is not hidden from you.

69:6  Through me let not any be shamed, who wait for you, Lord God of hosts. Through me let not those be confounded who seek you, O God of Israel.

69:7  It’s in your cause that I have borne taunts, and my face has been covered with shame;

69:8  I became to my kindred a foreigner, to my mother's sons a stranger.

69:9  It was zeal for your house that consumed me, and the insults they hurled at you fell upon me.

69:10  When I chastened myself with fasting, they took occasion to taunt me.

69:11  When I put on a garment of sackcloth, they made me the theme of a taunt-song.

69:12  Those who sit in the gate make sport of me in the music of drunken songs.

69:13  But I pray to you, Lord, for a time of favour. In your great love answer me; with your loyal help, save me

69:14  from sinking down in the mire. Lift me out of the deep deep waters,

69:15  that the rushing flood may not drown me, that the deep may not swallow me up, nor the pit close her mouth upon me.

69:16  Answer me, Lord, in your gracious kindness, turn to me in your great compassion.

69:17  Hide not your face from your servant, for I am in trouble; O answer me speedily.

69:18  Draw near to me, redeem me; because of my enemies, ransom me.

69:19  You know how I am insulted; in your sight are all my foes.

69:20  Insult has broken my heart, past cure are my shame and confusion. For pity I looked --- there was none! And for comforters, but I found none.

69:21  Poison they gave me for food, and to slake my thirst they gave vinegar.

69:22  May their table, outspread, be a trap to them, and their peace-offerings be a snare.

69:23  May their eyes be darkened and blind, make their loins to shake without ceasing.

69:24  Pour your indignation upon them, let your burning wrath overtake them.

69:25  May their camp be a desolation, in their tents be there none to live.

69:26  For those whom you struck, they persecute, and those whom you wounded, they pain yet more.

69:27  Charge them with sin upon sin, may they not be acquitted by you.

69:28  From the book of life be they blotted, may their names not be written with the righteous.

69:29  Lift me, O God, by your help above my pain and misery.

69:30  Then will I praise God in song and magnify him with thanksgiving,

69:31  which shall please the Lord better than ox, or than bullock with horns and hoofs.

69:32  The oppressed shall rejoice at the sight. You who seek after God, let your heart revive.

69:33  For the Lord listens to the poor, he does not despise his prisoners.

69:34  Let the heavens and the earth sing his praises, the seas, and all creatures that move in them.

69:35  For God will bring help to Zion, and build up the cities of Judah, his people shall live there in possession.

69:36  His servants’ children shall have it for heritage, and those who love him shall live therein.