To the chief musician, on Shoshannim. A psalm of David
69
📚✭✭Save me, O God,for the waters have come into
my soul.
2 📚I sink in deep mire,
where there is no standing.
I have come into deep waters,
where the floods overflow me.
3 📚I am weary of my crying.
My throat is dried up;
my eyes fail while I wait for my God.
4 📚✭Those who hate me without
a cause are more than the hairs
of my head.
Those who would destroy me,
my enemies wrongfully, are mighty.
I had to restore what I did not steal.
5 📚✭O God, you know my foolishness,
and my sins are not hidden from you.
6 📚✭Do not let those who wait for you,
O Lord God of hosts✭,
be ashamed for my sake.
Do not let those who seek you be
disgraced for my sake,
O God of Israel.
7 📚✭Because for your sake
I have borne scorn;
shame has covered my face.
8 📚I have become a stranger
to my brethren,
and an alien to my mother’s
children.
9 📚✭For the zeal of your house has
eaten me up,
and the scorn of those who scorned
you have fallen on me.
10 📚✭When I wept, and humbled
my soul with fasting,
I was scorned for that.
11 📚Also I made sackcloth✭
my clothing,
and I became a byword
to them.
12 📚Those who sit in the gate✭ speak
against me,
and I am the song
of the drunkards.
13 📚✭But as for me, my prayer is to you,
O LORD, in the acceptable time.
O God, in the greatness
of your mercy,
hear me, in the truth of your
salvation.
14 📚Deliver me out of the mire,
and let me not sink.
Let me be delivered from those
who hate me,
and out of the deep waters.
15 📚✭Do not let the flood water
overflow me,
nor the deep swallow me up,
and do not let the pit shut its
mouth on me.
16 📚Hear me, O LORD,
for your loving kindness is good.
Turn to me in accordance with the
abundance of your tender mercies.
17 📚And do not hide your face
from your servant,
for I am in trouble.
Hear me quickly.
18 📚Draw near to my soul,
and redeem it.
Rescue me because of my enemies.
19 📚✭You have known my reproach,
and my shame, and my dishonour.
My adversaries are all
before you.
20 📚✭Scorn has broken my heart,
and I am full of heaviness.
And I looked for someone
to take pity,
but there was no one,
and for comforters, but I found none.
21 📚✭They also gave me gall
for my food,
and in my thirst they gave me
vinegar to drink.
22 📚✭Let their table before them
become a snare,
and let what should have
been for their
welfare become a trap.
23 📚Let their eyes be darkened,
so that they can not see,
and make their loins shake
continually.
24 📚Pour out your indignation
on them,
and let your burning anger take hold
of them.
25 📚Let their habitation be desolate,
and let no one live in their tents.
26 📚For they persecute the one
whom you have struck,
and talk of the grief of those
whom you have wounded.
27 📚✭Ascribe wickedness to their
wickedness,
and let them not come into your
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 your salvation, O God,
set me up on high.
30 📚✭I will praise the name of God
with a song,
and will exalt him with thanksgiving✭.
31 📚And this will please
the LORD better than offering an ox
or bull that has
horns and hoofs.
32 📚✭The humble will see this, and
be glad;
and you who seek God,
your heart will live✭.
33 📚✭For the LORD hears the poor,
and does not despise his prisoners✭.
34 📚✭May the heaven and earth
praise him,
the seas, and everything that
moves in them.
35 📚✭For God will save Zion
and will build the
cities of Judah,
that they may live there
and possess it.
36 📚And the offspring of his servants
will inherit it,
and those who love his name
will live in it.