Psalms 69

1Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.

1Unto the end, a psalm for David, to bring to remembrance that the Lord saved him.

2I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

2O God, come to my assistance; O Lord, make haste to help me.

3I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

3Let them be confounded and ashamed that seek my soul:

4They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.

4Let them be turned backward, and blush for shame that desire evils to me: Let them be presently turned away blushing for shame that say to me: 'Tis well, 'tis well.

5O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.

5Let all that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee; and let such as love thy salvation say always: The Lord be magnified.

6Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.

6But I am needy and poor; O God, help me. Thou art my helper and my deliverer: O Lord, make no delay.

7Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

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8I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.

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9For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

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10When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.

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11I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.

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12They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.

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13But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Lord, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.

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14Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

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15Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

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16Hear me, O Lord; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.

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

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18Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.

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19Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.

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20Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

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21They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

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22Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

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

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

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25Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.

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26For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.

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27Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.

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

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29But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.

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

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31This also shall please the Lord better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

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32The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.

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33For the Lord heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.

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34Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.

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35For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.

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36The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.

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