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69:1  Save me, O God, for the waters have come in unto my soul.
69:2  I sink into deep mire where there is no standing; I have come into deep waters where the floods overflow me.
69:3  I am weary of my crying, my throat is dry; mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
69:4  They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head; they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty. Then I was made to restore that which I took not away.
69:5  O God, Thou knowest my foolishness, and my sins are not hid from Thee.
69:6  Let not them that wait on Thee, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed for my sake, let not those that seek Thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel,
69:7  because for Thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
69:8  I have become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.
69:9  For the zeal for Thine house hath eaten me up, and the reproaches of them that reproached Thee have fallen upon me.
69:10  When I wept and chastened my soul with fasting, that was turned to my reproach.
69:11  I also made sackcloth my garment, and I became a proverb to them.
69:12  They that sit at the gate speak against me, and I have become the song of the drunkards.
69:13  But as for me, my prayer is unto Thee: O Lord, in an acceptable time, O God, in the multitude of Thy mercy hear me in the truth of Thy salvation.
69:14  Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink; let me be delivered from them that hate me and out of the deep waters.
69:15  Let not the floodwater overflow 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 lovingkindness is good; turn unto me according to the multitude of Thy tender mercies.
69:17  And hide not Thy face from Thy servant, for I am in trouble; hear me speedily.
69:18  Draw nigh unto my soul and redeem it; deliver me because of mine enemies.
69:19  Thou hast known my reproach and my shame and my dishonor; mine adversaries are all before Thee.
69:20  Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness; I looked for some to take pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.
69:21  They gave me also gall for my meat, 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 welfare, let it become a trap.
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 habitation be desolate, and let none dwell in their tents.
69:26  For they persecute him whom Thou hast smitten, and they talk of the grief of those whom Thou hast wounded.
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 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  This also shall please the Lord better than an ox or a bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
69:32  The humble shall see this and be glad, and your heart shall live, that seek God.
69:33  For the Lord heareth the poor, and despiseth not His prisoners.
69:34  Let the heaven and earth praise Him, the seas and every thing that moveth therein.
69:35  For God will save Zion and will build the cities of Judah, that they may dwell there and possess it.
69:36  The seed also of His servants shall inherit it, and them that love His name shall dwell therein.