69Psalms 69

1Save me, O God; for the waters are come in to my soul.Select Psalms 69:1

2I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.Select Psalms 69:2

3I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: my eyes fail while I wait for my God.Select Psalms 69:3

4They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: they that would destroy me, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.Select Psalms 69:4

5O God, you know my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from you.Select Psalms 69:5

6Let not them that wait on you, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek you be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.Select Psalms 69:6

7Because for your sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face.Select Psalms 69:7

8I am become a stranger to my brothers, and an alien to my mother’s children.Select Psalms 69:8

9For the zeal of your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached you are fallen on me.Select Psalms 69:9

10When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.Select Psalms 69:10

11I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.Select Psalms 69:11

12They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.Select Psalms 69:12

13But as for me, my prayer is to you, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of your mercy hear me, in the truth of your salvation.Select Psalms 69:13

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.Select Psalms 69:14

15Let not the flood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth on me.Select Psalms 69:15

16Hear me, O LORD; for your loving kindness is good: turn to me according to the multitude of your tender mercies.Select Psalms 69:16

17And hide not your face from your servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.Select Psalms 69:17

18Draw near to my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of my enemies.Select Psalms 69:18

19You have known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: my adversaries are all before you.Select Psalms 69:19

20Reproach has 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.Select Psalms 69:20

21They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.Select Psalms 69:21

22Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.Select Psalms 69:22

23Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.Select Psalms 69:23

24Pour out your indignation on them, and let your wrathful anger take hold of them.Select Psalms 69:24

25Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.Select Psalms 69:25

26For they persecute him whom you have smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom you have wounded.Select Psalms 69:26

27Add iniquity to their iniquity: and let them not come into your righteousness.Select Psalms 69:27

28Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.Select Psalms 69:28

29But I am poor and sorrowful: let your salvation, O God, set me up on high.Select Psalms 69:29

30I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.Select Psalms 69:30

31This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that has horns and hoofs.Select Psalms 69:31

32The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.Select Psalms 69:32

33For the LORD hears the poor, and despises not his prisoners.Select Psalms 69:33

34Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moves therein.Select Psalms 69:34

35For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.Select Psalms 69:35

36The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.Select Psalms 69:36