Psalm 69:1WEB
Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!
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For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Lilies.” By David.
Psalm 69:1WEB
Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!
Psalm 69:2WEB
I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
Psalm 69:3WEB
I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail looking for my God.
Psalm 69:4WEB
Those 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.
Psalm 69:5WEB
God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren’t hidden from you.
Psalm 69:6WEB
Don’t let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord Yahweh of Armies. Don’t let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Psalm 69:7WEB
Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.
Psalm 69:8WEB
I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.
Psalm 69:9WEB
For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
Psalm 69:10WEB
When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.
Psalm 69:11WEB
When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
Psalm 69:12WEB
Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.
Psalm 69:13WEB
But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Psalm 69:14WEB
Deliver 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.
Psalm 69:15WEB
Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.
Psalm 69:16WEB
Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Psalm 69:17WEB
Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!
Psalm 69:18WEB
Draw near to my soul and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.
Psalm 69:19WEB
You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you.
Psalm 69:20WEB
Reproach 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.
Psalm 69:21WEB
They also gave me poison for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
Psalm 69:22WEB
Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.
Psalm 69:23WEB
Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see. Let their backs be continually bent.
Psalm 69:24WEB
Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.
Psalm 69:25WEB
Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.
Psalm 69:26WEB
For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.
Psalm 69:27WEB
Charge them with crime upon crime. Don’t let them come into your righteousness.
Psalm 69:28WEB
Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.
Psalm 69:29WEB
But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me.
Psalm 69:30WEB
I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
Psalm 69:31WEB
It will please Yahweh better than an ox, or a bull that has horns and hoofs.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Psalm 69:32WEB
The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.
Psalm 69:33WEB
For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Psalm 69:34WEB
Let heaven and earth praise him; the seas, and everything that moves therein!
Psalm 69:35WEB
For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it.
Psalm 69:36WEB
The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell therein.
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.