Psalms 69

Webster(i) 1 + 2 (69:1)To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in to my soul. 3 (69:2)I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. 4 (69:3)I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: my eyes fail while I wait for my God. 5 (69:4)They 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. 6 (69:5)O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee. 7 (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. 8 (69:7)Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face. 9 (69:8)I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to my mother's children. 10 (69:9)For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee have fallen upon me. 11 (69:10)When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. 12 (69:11)I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them. 13 (69:12)They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards. 14 (69:13)But as for me, my prayer is to thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation. 15 (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. 16 (69:15)Let not the water-flood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. 17 (69:16)Hear me, O LORD; for thy loving-kindness is good: turn to me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies. 18 (69:17)And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily. 19 (69:18)Draw nigh to my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of my enemies. 20 (69:19)Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: my adversaries are all before thee. 21 (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. 22 (69:21)They gave me also gall for my food; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. 23 (69:22)Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. 24 (69:23)Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake. 25 (69:24)Pour out thy indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them. 26 (69:25)Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents. 27 (69:26)For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded. 28 (69:27)Add iniquity to their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness. 29 (69:28)Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous. 30 (69:29)But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high. 31 (69:30)I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. 32 (69:31)This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs. 33 (69:32)The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God. 34 (69:33)For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners. 35 (69:34)Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein. 36 (69:35)For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession. 37 (69:36)The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.