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69:1  For the director. According to “Lilies.” Of David.
69:2  Save me, my God, for the waters have risen to my neck.
69:3  I am sinking in muddy depths and can find no foothold. I have fallen into deep waters, and the floods overwhelm me.
69:4  I am exhausted from crying out; my throat is parched. My eyes have been worn out searching for my God.
69:5  More numerous than the hairs of my head are those who hate me for no reason. Many are those who seek to destroy me, and they are treacherous. How can I restore what I have not stolen?
69:6  O God, you know how foolish I am; my guilty deeds are not hidden from you.
69:7  Do not allow those who hope in you to be put to shame because of me, O Lord of hosts. Do not let those who seek you suffer disgrace because of me, O God of Israel.
69:8  It is for your sake that I endure reproach and that shame covers my face.
69:9  I have become alienated from my brothers, a stranger to my mother’s sons.
69:10  Zeal for your house consumes me, and the insults directed at you fall on me.
69:11  When I mortified myself with fasting, I exposed myself to scorn.
69:12  When I clothed myself in sackcloth, I became a laughingstock.
69:13  Those who sit at the gate taunt me, and drunkards make me the target of their ditties.
69:14  But I lift up my prayer to you, O Lord, in the time of your favor. In your great kindness, O God, respond to me with your certain help.
69:15  Draw me out of the mire, and do not let me plunge any deeper. Deliver me from my enemies and from the deep waters.
69:16  Do not let the flood waters sweep over me, or the depths swallow me up, or the pit close its jaws around me.
69:17  Answer me, O Lord, for your kindness is wonderful; in your great compassion turn toward me.
69:18  Do not hide your face from your servant; answer me quickly, for I am in distress.
69:19  Draw near to me and redeem me; deliver me from my enemies.
69:20  You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor; all my oppressors are in your sight.
69:21  Insults have so broken my heart that I am near the end of my strength. I looked for compassion, but in vain, for some consolers, but I found none.
69:22  They put gall in my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
69:23  Let their table become a trap for them; let their well-being become a snare.
69:24  Let their eyes dim so that they cannot see, and let their limbs tremble constantly.
69:25  Vent your wrath on them, and let your burning anger take hold of them.
69:26  Let their camp be left desolate; let there be no one to dwell in their tents.
69:27  For they pursue the one you struck down and tell of the pain of the one you hurt.
69:28  Charge them with crime after crime; let them not share in your salvation.
69:29  Blot them out from the book of the living; do not number them among the upright.
69:30  But I am filled with pain and suffering; may your saving power, O God, raise me up.
69:31  I will praise the name of God with a song and glorify him with a hymn of thanksgiving.
69:32  This will gratify the Lord more than an ox or a young bull with horns and hoofs:
69:33  “Let the poor see this and rejoice; let those who seek God take heart.
69:34  For the Lord hears the needy and does not turn his back on captives.
69:35  Let the heavens and the earth offer praise, the seas and everything that moves therein.”
69:36  For God will deliver Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah. His people will live there and possess it;