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69:1  To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Psalm 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; 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, thou knowest my folly; the wrongs I have done are not hidden from thee.
69:6  Let not those who hope in thee be put to shame through me, O Lord God of hosts; let not those who seek thee be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel.
69:7  For it is for thy sake that I have borne reproach, that shame has covered my face.
69:8  I have become a stranger to my brethren, an alien to my mother’s sons.
69:9  For zeal for thy house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult thee have fallen on me.
69:10  When I 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 thee, O Lord. At an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of thy steadfast love answer me. With thy 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  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 thy steadfast love is good; according to thy abundant mercy, turn to me.
69:17  Hide not thy face from thy 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  Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame and my dishonor; my foes are all known to thee.
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 own table before them become a snare; let their sacrificial feasts be a trap.
69:23  Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see; and make their loins tremble continually.
69:24  Pour out thy indignation upon them, and let thy 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 thou hast smitten, and him whom thou hast wounded, they afflict still more.
69:27  Add to them punishment upon punishment; may they have no acquittal from thee.
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 thy 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  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 therein.
69:35  For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah; and his servants shall dwell there and possess it;
69:36  the children of his servants shall inherit it, and those who love his name shall dwell in it.