69:1 [To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. Of David.] 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 out; 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; mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies. 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 Let not those who hope in you be put to shame through me, O Lord GOD of hosts; let not those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel. 69:7 For it is for your sake that I have borne reproach, that dishonor has covered my face. 69:8 I have become a stranger to my brothers, 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 and humbled my soul with fasting, it became my reproach. 69:11 When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them. 69:12 I am the talk of 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 in your saving faithfulness. 69:14 Deliver me from sinking in the mire; let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters. 69:15 Let not 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 Hide not your face from your servant; for I am in distress; make haste to answer me. 69:18 Draw near to my soul, redeem me; ransom me because of my enemies! 69:19 You know my reproach, and my shame and my dishonor; my foes are all known to you. 69:20 Reproaches 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 sour wine to drink. 69:22 Let their own table before them become a snare; and when they are at peace, let it become a trap. 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 dwell in their tents. 69:26 For they persecute him whom you have struck down, and they recount the pain of those you have wounded. 69:27 Add to them punishment upon punishment; 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 afflicted and in pain; let your salvation, O God, set me on high! 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 When the humble see it they will be glad; you who seek God, let your hearts revive. 69:33 For the LORD hears the needy and does not despise his own people who are 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 up the cities of Judah, and people shall dwell there and possess it; 69:36 the offspring of his servants shall inherit it, and those who love his name shall dwell in it.