Psalms 69: 1 - 70: 5
For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Lilies.” By David. |
1Save me, 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, where the floods overflow me. |
3I am weary with my crying. |
My throat is dry. |
My eyes fail looking for my God. |
4Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. |
Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. |
I have to restore what I didn’t take away. |
5God, you know my foolishness. |
My sins aren’t hidden from you. |
6Don’t let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord GOD of Armies. |
Don’t let those who seek you be brought to dishonour through me, God of Israel. |
7Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. |
Shame has covered my face. |
8I have become a stranger to my brothers, |
an alien to my mother’s children. |
9For the zeal of your house consumes me. |
The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me. |
10When I wept and I fasted, |
that was to my reproach. |
11When I made sackcloth my clothing, |
I became a byword to them. |
12Those who sit in the gate talk about me. |
I am the song of the drunkards. |
13But as for me, my prayer is to you, LORD, in an acceptable time. |
God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation. |
14Deliver me out of the mire, and don’t let me sink. |
Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters. |
15Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me, |
neither let the deep swallow me up. |
Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me. |
16Answer me, LORD, for your loving kindness is good. |
According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me. |
17Don’t hide your face from your servant, |
for I am in distress. |
Answer me speedily! |
18Draw near to my soul and redeem it. |
Ransom me because of my enemies. |
19You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonour. |
My adversaries are all before you. |
20Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. |
I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; |
for comforters, but I found none. |
21They also gave me poison for my food. |
In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink. |
22Let their table before them become a snare. |
May it become a retribution and a trap. |
23Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see. |
Let their backs be continually bent. |
24Pour out your indignation on them. |
Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them. |
25Let their habitation be desolate. |
Let no one dwell in their tents. |
26For they persecute him whom you have wounded. |
They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt. |
27Charge them with crime upon crime. |
Don’t let them come into your righteousness. |
28Let them be blotted out of the book of life, |
and not be written with the righteous. |
29But I am in pain and distress. |
Let your salvation, God, protect me. |
30I will praise the name of God with a song, |
and will magnify him with thanksgiving. |
31It will please the LORD better than an ox, |
or a bull that has horns and hoofs. |
32The humble have seen it, and are glad. |
You who seek after God, let your heart live. |
33For the LORD hears the needy, |
and doesn’t despise his captive people. |
34Let heaven and earth praise him; |
the seas, and everything that moves therein! |
35For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. |
They shall settle there, and own it. |
36The children also of his servants shall inherit it. |
Those who love his name shall dwell therein. |
For the Chief Musician. By David. A reminder. |
1Hurry, God, to deliver me. |
Come quickly to help me, LORD. |
2Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul. |
Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace. |
3Let them be turned because of their shame |
who say, “Aha! Aha!” |
4Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. |
Let those who love your salvation continually say, |
“Let God be exalted!” |
5But I am poor and needy. |
Come to me quickly, God. |
You are my help and my deliverer. |
LORD, don’t delay. |
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