|
The Book of Psalms, Chapter 69
|
1 |
Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
|
2 |
I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into
deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
|
3 |
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while
I wait for my God.
|
4 |
They 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.
|
5 |
O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from
thee.
|
6 |
Let 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.
|
7 |
Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my
face.
|
8 |
I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my
mother's children.
|
9 |
For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches
of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
|
10 |
When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my
reproach.
|
11 |
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to
them.
|
12 |
They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song
of the drunkards.
|
13 |
But 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.
|
14 |
Deliver 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.
|
15 |
Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow
me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
|
16 |
Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me
according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
|
17 |
And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble:
hear me speedily.
|
18 |
Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of
mine enemies.
|
19 |
Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour:
mine adversaries are all before thee.
|
20 |
Reproach 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.
|
21 |
They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave
me vinegar to drink.
|
22 |
Let their table become a snare before them: and that which
should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
|
23 |
Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their
loins continually to shake.
|
24 |
Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger
take hold of them.
|
25 |
Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their
tents.
|
26 |
For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to
the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
|
27 |
Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy
righteousness.
|
28 |
Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be
written with the righteous.
|
29 |
But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up
on high.
|
30 |
I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him
with thanksgiving.
|
31 |
This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock
that hath horns and hoofs.
|
32 |
The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall
live that seek God.
|
33 |
For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
|
34 |
Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing
that moveth therein.
|
35 |
For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that
they may dwell there, and have it in possession.
|
36 |
The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that
love his name shall dwell therein.
|