The Book of Psalms 69

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1 Save me O God for the waters are come in unto my soul ⚑

2 I sink in deep mire where there is no standing I am come into deep waters where the floods overflow me ⚑

3 I am weary of my crying my throat is dried mine eyes fail while I wait for my God ⚑

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 restored that which I took not away ⚑

5 O God thou knowest my foolishness and my sins are not hid from thee ⚑

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 ⚑

7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach shame hath covered my face ⚑

8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren and an alien unto my other’s children ⚑

9 For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me ⚑

10 When I wept and chastened my soul with fasting that was to my reproach ⚑

11 I made sackcloth also my garment and I became a proverb to them ⚑

12 They that sit in the gate speak against me and I was the song of the drunkards ⚑

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 ⚑

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 ⚑

15 Let not the waterflood overflow me neither let the deep swallow me up and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me ⚑

16 Hear me O LORD for thy lovingkindness is good turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies ⚑

17 And hide not thy face from thy servant for I am in trouble hear me speedily ⚑

18 Draw nigh unto my soul and redeem it deliver me because of mine enemies ⚑

19 Thou hast known my reproach and my shame and my dishonour mine adversaries are all before thee ⚑

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 ⚑

21 They gave me also gall for my meat and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink ⚑

22 Let their table become a snare before them and that which should have been for their welfare let it become a trap ⚑

23 Let their eyes be darkened that they see not and make their loins continually to shake ⚑

24 Pour out thine indignation upon them and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them ⚑

25 Let their habitation be desolate and let none dwell in their tents ⚑

26 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded ⚑

27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity and let them not come into thy righteousness ⚑

28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living and not be written with the righteous ⚑

29 But I am poor and sorrowful let thy salvation O God set me up on high ⚑

30 I will praise the name of God with a song and will magnify him with thanksgiving ⚑

31 This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs ⚑

32 The humble shall see this and be glad and your heart shall live that seek God ⚑

33 For the LORD heareth the poor and despiseth not his prisoners ⚑

34 Let the heaven and earth praise him the seas and every thing that moveth therein ⚑

35 For God will save Zion and will build the cities of Judah that they may dwell there and have it in possession ⚑

36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it and they that love his name shall dwell therein ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain