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69:1  To the Overcomer upon Shoshannim (lilies), A Psalm of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
69:2  I sink in deep mire where there is no standing; I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
69:3  I am weary of my crying; my throat is dried; my eyes fail while I wait for my God.
69:4  Those that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; those that would destroy me, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty; then I restored that which I did not take away.
69:5  O God, thou knowest my foolishness, and my guiltiness is not hid from thee.
69:6  Do not let those that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of the hosts, be ashamed for my sake; do not let those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
69:7  Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face.
69:8  I am become a stranger unto my brethren and an alien unto my mother’s sons.
69:9  For the zeal of thy house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
69:10  When I wept with fasting of my soul, thou hast been a reproach unto me.
69:11  I made sackcloth also my garment, and I became a proverb to them.
69:12  They that sat in the gate spoke against me, and I was the song of the drunkards.
69:13  But I corrected my prayer unto thee, O LORD, in the time of thy good pleasure; O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy saving health.
69:14  Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not drown; let me be delivered from those that hate me and out of the deep waters.
69:15  Let not the violent force of the waters overcome me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
69:16  Hear me, O LORD, for thy mercy is perceptible, look upon me according to the multitude of thy acts of compassion
69:17  And hide not thy face from thy slave, for I am in trouble; hear me speedily.
69:18  Draw near unto my soul and redeem it; deliver me because of my enemies.
69:19  Thou hast known my reproach and my shame and my dishonour; my adversaries are all before thee.
69:20  Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness, and I looked for some to take pity, but there was no one, 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 that which should have been for their prosperity, let it become a stumbling block.
69:23  Let their eyes be darkened that they see not and make their loins continually to shake.
69:24  Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
69:25  Let their palace be desolate, and let no one dwell in their tents.
69:26  For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten, and they boast that thou hast slain their enemies.
69:27  Add iniquity unto their iniquity, and let them not come into thy righteousness.
69:28  Let them be blotted out of the book of the living and not be written with the righteous.
69:29  But I am poor and sorrowful; let thy saving health, O God, set me up on high.
69:30  I will praise the name of God with a song and will magnify him with praises.
69:31  This also shall please the LORD better than the sacrifice of an ox or bullock that struggles with horns and hoofs.
69:32  The humble shall see this and be glad; seek God and thy heart shall live.
69:33  For the LORD hears the destitute and does not despise his prisoners.
69:34  Let the heavens and the earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moves in them.
69:35  For God will protect Zion and will rebuild the cities of Judah; they shall dwell there and inherit it.
69:36  The seed of his slaves shall inherit it, and those that love his name shall dwell therein.