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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 mother'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.1
References and notes
1. King James Authorized Version
2.
CLARKE'S COMMENTARY -
PSALMS 69 - http://www.godrules.net/library/clarke/clarkepsa69.htm
3.
Matthew Henry Bible Commentary -
http://www.ewordtoday.com/comments/psalm/mh/psalm69.htm
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