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69:1  For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshannim. 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 with my crying; my throat is dried: 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 cut me off, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored 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 be ashamed through me, O Lord GOD of hosts: let not those that seek thee be brought to dishonour through me, O God of Israel.
69:7  Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
69:8  I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.
69:9  For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproach thee are fallen upon me.
69:10  When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
69:11  When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a proverb unto them.
69:12  They that sit in the gate talk of me; and I am 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, answer 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 waterflood overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up; and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
69:16  Answer me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: according to the multitude of thy tender mercies turn thou unto me.
69:17  And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in distress; answer me speedily.
69:18  Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: ransom me because of mine enemies.
69:19  Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.
69:20  Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and 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 before them become a snare; and when they are in peace, 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 the fierceness of thine anger overtake them.
69:25  Let their habitation be desolate; let none dwell in their tents.
69:26  For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they tell of the sorrow 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 life, 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  And it shall please the LORD better than an ox, or a bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
69:32  The meek have seen it, and are glad: ye that seek after God, let your heart live.
69:33  For the LORD heareth the needy, and despiseth not his prisoners.
69:34  Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.
69:35  For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah; and they shall abide there, and have it in possession.
69:36  The seed also of his servants shall inherit it; and they that love his name shall dwell therein.