Psalm On Demand - Psalm 69

Psalm 69

 

 

 

¹ Save me, O God!

For the waters have come up to my neck.

² I sink in deep mire,

Where there is no standing;

I have come into deep waters,

Where the floods overflow me.

Right mouse click to save/download this Psalm as a MP3 file

³ I am weary with my crying;

My throat is dry;

My eyes fail while I wait for my God.

⁴ Those who hate me without a cause

Are more than the hairs of my head;

They are mighty who would destroy me,

Being my enemies wrongfully;

Though I have stolen nothing,

I still must restore it.

⁵ O God, You know my foolishness;

And my sins are not hidden from You.

⁶ Let not those who wait for You, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed because of me;

Let not those who seek You be confounded because of me, O God of Israel.

⁷ Because for Your sake I have borne reproach;

Shame has covered my face.

⁸ I have become a stranger to my brothers,

And an alien to my mother's children;

⁹ Because zeal for Your house has eaten me up,

And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me.

¹⁰ When I wept and chastened my soul with fasting,

That became my reproach.

¹¹ I also made sackcloth my garment;

I became a byword to them.

¹² Those who sit in the gate speak against me,

And I am the song of the drunkards.

¹³ But as for me, my prayer is to You,

O LORD, in the acceptable time;

O God, in the multitude of Your mercy,

Hear me in the truth of Your salvation.

¹⁴ Deliver me out of the mire,

And let me not sink;

Let me be delivered from those who hate me,

And out of the deep waters.

¹⁵ Let not the floodwater overflow me,

Nor let the deep swallow me up;

And let not the pit shut its mouth on me.

¹⁶ Hear me, O LORD, for Your lovingkindness is good;

Turn to me according to the multitude of Your tender mercies.

¹⁷ And do not hide Your face from Your servant,

For I am in trouble;

Hear me speedily.

¹⁸ Draw near to my soul, and redeem it;

Deliver me because of my enemies.

¹⁹ You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor;

My adversaries are all before You.

²⁰ Reproach has broken my heart,

And I am full of heaviness;

I looked for someone to take pity, but there was none;

And for comforters, but I found none.

²¹ They also gave me gall for my food,

And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

²² Let their table become a snare before them,

And their well-being a trap.

²³ Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see;

And make their loins shake continually.

²⁴ Pour out Your indignation upon them,

And let Your wrathful anger take hold of them.

²⁵ Let their dwelling place be desolate;

Let no one live in their tents.

²⁶ For they persecute the ones You have struck,

And talk of the grief of those You have wounded.

²⁷ Add iniquity to their iniquity,

And let them not come into Your 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 Your 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 bull,

Which has horns and hooves.

³² The humble shall see this and be glad;

And you who seek God, your hearts shall live.

³³ For the LORD hears the poor,

And does not despise His prisoners.

³⁴ Let heaven and earth praise Him,

The seas and everything that moves in them.

³⁵ For God will save Zion

And build the cities of Judah,

That they may dwell there and possess it.

³⁶ Also, the descendants of His servants shall inherit it,

And those who love His name shall dwell in it.

Right mouse click or tap here to save/download this Psalm as a MP3 file