Psalms 69 To the chaunter vpon Sosanim of Dauid. Saue me, O God, for the waters are come in euen vnto my soule.

Great⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ To the chaunter vpon Sosanim of Dauid. Saue me, O God, for the waters are come in euen vnto my soule. ² I sticke fast in the depe myre, where no ground is: I am come into depe waters, so that the floudes renne ouer me. ³ I am wery of crying, my throte is drie, my sight faileth me, for waytinge so long vpon my God. ⁴ They that hate me without a cause, are mo then the heeres of my head: they that are myne enemies & wolde destroie me giltlesse are mightie: ⁵ I payed them the thinges that I neuer toke. God, thou knowest my simplenesse, and my fautes are not hid from the. ⁶ Let not them that trust in the, O Lord God of Hoostes be ashamed for my cause: let not those that seke the, be confounded thorowe me, O God of Israeli. ⁷ And why? for thy sake haue I suffred reprofe, shame hath couered my face. ⁸ I am become a straunger vnto my brethren: euen an aleaunt vnto my mothers children. ⁹ For the zele of thyne house hath euen eaten me, and the rebukes of them that rebuked the are fallen vpon me. ¹⁰ I wepte and chastened my selfe with fastynge, and that was turned to my reprofe. ¹¹ I put on a sacke cloth also, & they iested vpon me. ¹² They that sitte in the gate, speake agaynst me, and the dronckardes make songes vpon me. ¹³ But Lorde I make my prayer vnto the in an acceptable tyme. ¹⁴ Heare me, O God, in the multitude of thy mercy, euen in the trueth of thy saluacion. ¹⁵ Take me out of the myre, that I sincke not. Oh let me be deliuered from them that hate me, and out of the depe waters. ¹⁶ Let not the water floud drowne me: nether let the depe swalowe me vp, and let not the pytte shut her mouth vpon me. ¹⁷ Heare me, O Lorde, for thy louyng kyndnesse is comfortable: turne the vnto me accordynge vnto the multitude of thy mercies. ¹⁸ And hyde not thy face from thy seruaunt, for I am in trouble: O haste the, and here me. ¹⁹ Drawe nye vnto my soule, and saue it: Oh delyuer me because of myne enemies. ²⁰ Thou hast knowen my reprose, my shame and my dyshonour: myne aduersaries are all in thy syght. ²¹ The rebuke hath broken my herte, I am full of heuynes: I loked for some to haue pitye vpon me, but there was no man: nether founde I anye to comforte me. ²² They gaue me gall to eate, & when I was thyrsty, they gaue me vineger to drinke. ²³ Let their table be made a snare to take them selues withall, and let the thinges (that shuld haue bene for their welth) be vnto them an occasion of fallinge. ²⁴ Let their eyes be blinded, that they se not: and euer bowe thou downe their backes. ²⁵ Powre out thyne indignacion vpon them, and let thy wrathfull displeasure take holde of them. ²⁶ Let their habitacion be voyde and no man to dwell in their tentes. ²⁷ For they persecute hym whom thou hast smyte, & they talke how they maye vexe them whom thou hast wounded. ²⁸ Let them fall from one wyckednesse to another, and not come into thy ryghteousnesse. ²⁹ Let them be wyped out of the boke of the lyuyng, & not be wrytten among the ryghteous. ³⁰ As for me, whan I am poore and in heuynesse, thy helpe (O God) shall lyfte me vp. ³¹ I wyll prayse the name of God with a songe, and magnifye it wt thankesgeuing. ³² This also shall please the Lorde better then a bullocke, that hath hornes and hooffes. ³³ The humble shal consydre this, and be glad: seke ye after God, and youre soule shall lyue. ³⁴ For the Lord heareth the poore, and despyseth not his presoners. ³⁵ Let heauen and earth prayse hym, the see & all that moueth therin. ³⁶ For God will saue Syon, and buylde the cyties of Iuda, that men may dwell there, and haue it in possession. The posterite also of his seruauntes shall inheret it: & they that loue hys name, shall dwell therin.