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69:1  For the Music Director. To the melody of “Lilies.” A Psalm of David. Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my throat.
69:2  I sink in deep mire; there is no standing place; I have come into the watery depths, and a stream overflows me.
69:3  I am weary of my crying; my throat is parched; my eyes fail while I wait for my God.
69:4  Those who hate me without cause are more than the hairs of my head; they are mighty who would destroy me, being my wrongful enemies, so that I must pay back what I did not steal.
69:5  O God, You know my folly, and my sins are not hidden from You.
69:6  May those who wait on You, O Lord God of Hosts, not be ashamed because of me; may those who seek You not be humiliated because of me, O God of Israel.
69:7  Because for Your sake I have endured insult; humiliation has covered my face.
69:8  I have become estranged to my relatives, and a foreigner to my mother’s children;
69:9  for the zeal of Your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insulted You fell on me.
69:10  When I wept with fasting for my soul, it became an insult to me.
69:11  I also made sackcloth my garment, and I became a byword to them.
69:12  Those who sit in the gate speak against me, and I am the song of the drunkards.
69:13  But as for me, my prayer is to You, O Lord; in an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of Your mercy, answer me in the truth of Your salvation.
69:14  Deliver me out of the mire that I may not sink; may I be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the watery depths.
69:15  May the stream not overflow me; neither may the deep swallow me up, nor the pit close its mouth on me.
69:16  Answer me, O Lord, for Your lovingkindness is good; turn Your face to me according to the abundance of Your tender mercies.
69:17  Do not hide Your face from Your servant, for I am in trouble; answer me quickly.
69:18  Draw near to my soul, and redeem it; deliver me because of my enemies.
69:19  You have known how I am insulted, and my shame and my dishonor; my adversaries are all before You.
69:20  Insults have broken my heart, and I am sick; and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
69:21  They also gave me poison for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
69:22  May their table become a snare before them, and may security become a trap.
69:23  May their eyes be darkened so they do not see, and make their sides shake continually.
69:24  Pour out Your indignation on them, and may Your wrathful anger overtake them.
69:25  May their habitation be desolate, and may no one dwell in their tents.
69:26  For they persecute him whom You have struck down, and they recount the pain of those You have wounded.
69:27  Add punishment to their iniquity, and do not let them come into Your righteousness.
69:28  Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written along with the righteous.
69:29  But I am poor and in pain; may Your salvation, O God, set me secure on high.
69:30  I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify Him with thanksgiving.
69:31  This also will please the Lord more than an ox or bull with horns and hoofs.
69:32  The humble will see this and be glad; and you who seek God, may your heart live.
69:33  For the Lord hears the poor, and does not despise His prisoners.
69:34  Let heaven and earth praise Him, the seas and everything that moves in them.
69:35  For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah; that they may dwell there, and take possession of it.
69:36  The descendants of His servants will inherit it; and those who love His name will dwell in it.