69:1 Save me, O God, For the waters have threatened my life. |
69:2 I have sunk in deep mire, where I have can find no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and a flood overflows me. |
69:3 I feel weary with my crying; my throat feels parched; My eyes fail while I wait for my God. |
69:4 Those who hate me without a cause have increased more than the hairs of my head; Those who would destroy me have much power, Having become wrongfully my enemies; What I did not steal, I then have to restore. |
69:5 O God, You know my folly, And my wrongs cannot hide from You. |
69:6 May those who wait for You not have shame through me, O Lord GOD of hosts; May those who seek You not receive dishonor through me, O God of Israel, |
69:7 Because for Your sake I have borne reproach; Dishonor has covered my face. |
69:8 I have become estranged from my brothers And an alien to my mother's sons. |
69:9 For zeal for Your house has consumed me, And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me. |
69:10 When I wept in my soul with fasting, It became my reproach. |
69:11 When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them. |
69:12 Those who sit in the gate talk about me, And drunkards sing songs about me. |
69:13 But as for me, I pray to You, O LORD, at an acceptable time; O God, in the greatness of Your lovingkindness, Answer me with Your saving truth. |
69:14 Deliver me from the mire and do not let me sink; May You deliver me from my foes and from the deep waters. |
69:15 May the flood of water not overflow me Nor the deep swallow me up, Nor the pit shut its mouth on me. |
69:16 Answer me, O LORD, for I consider Your lovingkindness as good; According to the greatness of Your compassion, turn to me, |
69:17 And do not hide Your face from Your servant, For I have fallen in distress; answer me quickly. |
69:18 Oh draw near to my soul and redeem it; Ransom me because of my enemies! |
69:19 You know my reproach and my shame and my dishonor; All my adversaries reside before You. |
69:20 Reproach has broken my heart and I have become sick And I looked for sympathy, but could find none, And for comforters, but I found none. |
69:21 They also gave me gall for my food And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. |
69:22 May their table before them become a snare; And when they feel at peace, may it become a trap. |
69:23 May their eyes grow dim so that they cannot see, And make their loins shake continually. |
69:24 Pour out Your indignation on them, And may Your burning anger overtake them. |
69:25 May their camp fall into desolation; May none dwell in their tents. |
69:26 For they have persecuted him whom You Yourself have smitten, And they tell of the pain of those whom You have wounded. |
69:27 Add iniquity to their iniquity, And may they not come into Your righteousness. |
69:28 May You blot them out of the book of life And may You not record them with the righteous. |
69:29 But I have fallen into affliction and pain; May Your salvation, O God, set me securely on high. |
69:30 I will praise the name of God with song And magnify Him with thanksgiving. |
69:31 And it will please the LORD better than an ox Or a young bull with horns and hoofs. |
69:32 The humble have seen it and have become glad; You who seek God, let your heart revive. |
69:33 For the LORD hears the needy And does not despise His who have become prisoners. |
69:34 Let heaven and earth praise Him, The seas and everything that moves in them. |
69:35 For God will save Zion and build the cities of Judah, That they may dwell there and possess it. |
69:36 The descendants of His servants will inherit it, And those who love his name will dwell in it. |