NRSV Psalms 69 Chapter
69:1
Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck.
69:2
I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me.
69:3
I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.
69:4
More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; many are those who would destroy me, my enemies who accuse me falsely. What I did not steal must I now restore?
69:5
O God, you know my folly; the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you.
69:6
Do not let those who hope in you be put to shame because of me, O Lord GOD of hosts; do not let those who seek you be dishonored because of me, O God of Israel.
69:7
It is for your sake that I have borne reproach, that shame has covered my face.
69:8
I have become a stranger to my kindred, an alien to my mother's children.
69:9
It is zeal for your house that has consumed me; the insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.
69:10
When I humbled my soul with fasting, they insulted me for doing so.
69:11
When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
69:12
I am the subject of gossip for those who sit in the gate, and the drunkards make songs about me.
69:13
But as for me, my prayer is to you, O LORD. At an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of your steadfast love, answer me. With your faithful help
69:14
rescue me from sinking in the mire; let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters.
69:15
Do not let the flood sweep over me, or the deep swallow me up, or the Pit close its mouth over me.
69:16
Answer me, O LORD, for your steadfast love is good; according to your abundant mercy, turn to me.
69:17
Do not hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress-- make haste to answer me.
69:18
Draw near to me, redeem me, set me free because of my enemies.
69:19
You know the insults I receive, and my shame and dishonor; my foes are all known to you.
69:20
Insults have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
69:21
They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
69:22
Let their table be a trap for them, a snare for their allies.
69:23
Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and make their loins tremble continually.
69:24
Pour out your indignation upon them, and let your burning anger overtake them.
69:25
May their camp be a desolation; let no one live in their tents.
69:26
For they persecute those whom you have struck down, and those whom you have wounded, they attack still more.
69:27
Add guilt to their guilt; may they have no acquittal from you.
69:28
Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; let them not be enrolled among the righteous.
69:29
But I am lowly and in pain; let your salvation, O God, protect me.
69:30
I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him with thanksgiving.
69:31
This will please the LORD more than an ox or a bull with horns and hoofs.
69:32
Let the oppressed see it and be glad; you who seek God, let your hearts revive.
69:33
For the LORD hears the needy, and does not despise his own that are in bonds.
69:34
Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves in them.
69:35
For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah; and his servants shall live there and possess it;
69:36
the children of his servants shall inherit it, and those who love his name shall live in it.