Psalms69

¹To the choirmaster : according to Lilies . Of David . Save me, O God ! For the waters have come up to my neck .

²I sink in deep mire , where there is no foothold ; I have come into deep waters , and the flood sweeps over me.

³I am weary with my crying out ; my throat is parched . My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God .

⁴More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause ; mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies . What I did not steal must I now restore ?

⁵O God , you know my folly ; the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you.

⁶Let not those who hope in you be put to shame through me, O Lord God of hosts ; let not those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel .

⁷For it is for your sake that I have borne reproach , that dishonor has covered my face .

⁸I have become a stranger to my brothers , an alien to my mother’s sons .

⁹For zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

¹⁰When I wept and humbled my soul with fasting , it became my reproach .

¹¹When I made sackcloth my clothing , I became a byword to them.

¹²I am the talk of those who sit in the gate , and the drunkards songs about me.

¹³But as for me, my prayer is to you, O Lord. At an acceptable time , O God , in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness .

¹⁴Deliver me from sinking in the mire ; let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters .

¹⁵Let not the flood sweep over me , or the deep swallow me up , or the pit close its mouth over me.

¹⁶Answer me, O Lord, for your steadfast love is good ; according to your abundant mercy , turn to me.

¹⁷Hide not your face from your servant ; for I am in distress ; make haste to answer me.

¹⁸Draw near to my soul , redeem me; ransom me because of my enemies !

¹⁹You know my reproach , and my shame and my dishonor ; my foes are all known to you .

²⁰Reproaches have broken my heart , so that I am in despair . I looked for pity , but there was none , and for comforters , but I found none .

²¹They gave me poison for food , and for my thirst they gave me sour wine to drink .

²²Let their own table before them become a snare ; and when they are at peace , let it become a trap .

²³Let their eyes be darkened , so that they cannot see , and make their loins tremble continually .

²⁴Pour out your indignation upon them , and let your burning anger overtake them.

²⁵May their camp be a desolation ; let no one dwell in their tents .

²⁶For they persecute him whom you have struck down , and they recount the pain of those you have wounded .

²⁷Add to them punishment upon punishment ; may they have no acquittal from you.

²⁸Let them be blotted out of the book of the living ; let them not be enrolled among the righteous .

²⁹But I am afflicted and in pain ; let your salvation , O God , set me on high !

³⁰I will praise the name of God with a song ; I will magnify him with thanksgiving .

³¹This will please the Lord more than an ox or a bull with horns and hoofs .

³²When the humble see it they will be glad ; you who seek God , let your hearts revive .

³³For the Lord hears the needy and does not despise his own people who are prisoners .

³⁴Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves in them.

³⁵For God will save Zion and build up the cities of Judah , and people shall dwell there and possess it;

³⁶the offspring of his servants shall inherit it, and those who love his name shall dwell in it.