PS-69:1 To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, [A Psalm] of

David. 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.

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