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