69:2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing; I have come into deep waters, where the floods overwhelm me. |
69:3 I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched; my eyes fail while I wait for my God. |
69:4 Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; those who would cut me off are mighty being wrongfully my enemies. Should I restore what I did not take away? |
69:5 O God, You know my foolishness, and my sins are not hidden from You. |
69:6 Do not let those who wait on You, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed because of me; let not the ones who seek You be ashamed because of me, O God of Israel |
69:7 Because for Your sake I have borne reproach, shame has covered my face. |
69:8 I have become a stranger to My brothers and an alien to My mother's children, |
69:9 For the zeal of Your house has eaten Me up, and the reproaches of those who reproached You have fallen upon Me. |
69:10 When I wept in my soul with fasting, it became my reproach. |
69:11 I also made sackcloth my clothing, and I became a proverb to them. |
69:12 Those who sit in the gate speak about me; and I was the song of the drunkards. |
69:13 But as for me, my prayer is to You, O LORD, in an acceptable time; O God, in the abundance of Your mercy answer me, in the truth of Your salvation. |
69:14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink; let me be delivered from those who hate me and out of the deep waters. |
69:15 Do not let the flood of waters overflow me, nor let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut its mouth upon me. |
69:16 Answer me, O LORD, for Your steadfast love is good; turn unto me according to the multitude of Your tender mercies. |
69:17 And hide not Your face from Your servant, for I am in trouble; answer me speedily. |
69:18 Draw near unto my soul and redeem it; deliver me because of my enemies. |
69:19 You have known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor; my enemies are all before You. |
69:20 Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness; and I looked for sympathy, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. |
69:21 They also gave Me gall for My food; and in My thirst they gave Me vinegar to drink. |
69:22 Let their table become a snare before them; and when they are at peace, let it become a trap. |
69:23 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see; and make their loins shake without ceasing. |
69:24 Pour out Your indignation upon them, and let the fierceness of anger take hold of them. |
69:25 Let their encampment be desolate; let none dwell in their tents, |
69:26 For they persecute him whom You have stricken, and they recount the grief of those You have wounded. |
69:27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity, and let them not come into Your righteousness. |
69:28 Let them be blotted out of the Book of Life and not be written with the righteous. |
69:29 But I am poor and sorrowful; let Your salvation, O God, set me up on high. |
69:30 I will praise the name of God with a song and will magnify Him with thanksgiving. |
69:31 This also shall please the LORD better than a bullock that has horns and hoofs. |
69:32 The humble shall see and be glad; and your heart shall live, you who seek God, |
69:33 For the LORD hears the needy and does not despise His prisoners. |
69:34 Let the heavens and earth praise Him, the seas, and everything that moves in them, |
69:35 For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah; so that they may dwell there and possess it. |
69:36 And the seed of His servants shall inherit it, and those who love His name shall dwell in it. |