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69:1  Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck [they threaten my life].
69:2  I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, where the floods overwhelm me.
69:3  I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched; my eyes fail with waiting [hopefully] for my God.
69:4  Those who hate me without cause are more than the hairs of my head; those who would cut me off and destroy me, being my enemies wrongfully, are many and mighty. I am [forced] to restore what I did not steal.
69:5  O God, You know my folly and blundering; my sins and my guilt are not hidden from You.
69:6  Let not those who wait and hope and look for You, O Lord of hosts, be put to shame through me; let not those who seek and inquire for and require You [as their vital necessity] be brought to confusion and dishonor through me, O God of Israel.
69:7  Because for Your sake I have borne taunt and reproach; confusion and shame have covered my face.
69:8  I have become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to my mother’s children.
69:9  For zeal for Your house has eaten me up, and the reproaches and insults of those who reproach and insult You have fallen upon me.
69:10  When I wept and humbled myself with fasting, I was jeered at and humiliated;
69:11  When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword (an object of scorn) to them.
69:12  They who sit in [the city’s] gate talk about me, and I am the song of the drunkards.
69:13  But as for me, my prayer is to You, O Lord. At an acceptable and opportune time, O God, in the multitude of Your mercy and the abundance of Your loving-kindness hear me, and in the truth and faithfulness of Your salvation answer me.
69:14  Rescue me out of the mire, and let me not sink; let me be delivered from those who hate me and from out of the deep waters.
69:15  Let not the floodwaters overflow and overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up nor the [dug] pit [with water perhaps in the bottom] close its mouth over me.
69:16  Hear and answer me, O Lord, for Your loving-kindness is sweet and comforting; according to Your plenteous tender mercy and steadfast love turn to me.
69:17  Hide not Your face from Your servant, for I am in distress; O answer me speedily!
69:18  Draw close to me and redeem me; ransom and set me free because of my enemies [lest they glory in my prolonged distress]!
69:19  You know my reproach and my shame and my dishonor; my adversaries are all before You [fully known to You].
69:20  Insults and reproach have broken my heart; I am full of heaviness and I am distressingly sick. I looked for pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.
69:21  They gave me also gall [poisonous and bitter] for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar (a soured wine) to drink.
69:22  Let their own table [with all its abundance and luxury] become a snare to them; and when they are secure in peace [or at their sacrificial feasts, let it become] a trap to them.
69:23  Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and make their loins tremble continually [from terror, dismay, and feebleness].
69:24  Pour out Your indignation upon them, and let the fierceness of Your burning anger catch up with them.
69:25  Let their habitation and their encampment be a desolation; let no one dwell in their tents.
69:26  For they pursue and persecute him whom You have smitten, and they gossip about those whom You have wounded, [adding] to their grief and pain.
69:27  Let one [unforgiven] perverseness and iniquity accumulate upon another for them [in Your book], and let them not come into Your righteousness or be justified and acquitted by You.
69:28  Let them be blotted out of the book of the living and the book of life and not be enrolled among the [uncompromisingly] righteous (those upright and in right standing with God).
69:29  But I am poor, sorrowful, and in pain; let Your salvation, O God, set me up on high.
69:30  I will praise the name of God with a song and will magnify Him with thanksgiving,
69:31  And it will please the Lord better than an ox or a bullock that has horns and hoofs.
69:32  The humble shall see it and be glad; you who seek God, inquiring for and requiring Him [as your first need], let your hearts revive and live!
69:33  For the Lord hears the poor and needy and despises not His prisoners (His miserable and wounded ones).
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 remain and dwell there and have it in their possession;
69:36  The children of His servants shall inherit it, and those who love His name shall dwell in it.